"My Owens Valley"

All photos are courtsey of and copyright by Ray DeLea ("The Pigmy Packer") unless otherwise noted.


The following are photographs I have taken in and around Owens Valley.
More of my Owens Valley photographs can be found on FLICKR.


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Near the Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011
(photo 2)
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Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011

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Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011

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Owens Valley Aqueduct at Jawbone Canyon - March 2011


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Red Rock Canyon on California State Route 14 on the way to Owens Valley

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nine mile canyon
nine mile canyon
Nine Mile Canyon Road back to Kennedy Meadows
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Lava outcrop just south of Little Lake off of old U.S. 395

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Me on the Nine Mile Canyon Road

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Nine Mile Canyon Road back to Kennedy Meadows

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Fence on the Nine Mile Canyon Road
Nine Mile Canyon
Note: It was on the Nine Mile Canyon Road that Catherine (C.C.) Anderson had a fatal accident.
Catherine was one of the Spainhower Ranch girls and quite beautiful.


Note: It is at the summit of the Nine Mile Canyon Road that the local Lone Pine Piute Native Americans harvest pine nuts in the fall.

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pearsonville
pearsonville

pearsonville

Pearsonville - Hub Cap Capital of the World
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Pearsonville resident.
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Pearsonville - where the gasoline prices never change
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Pearsonville - circa 1970's
(Photocard courtesy of Inyo County Sesquicentennial)
Yuko N. Hahn writes:
We always stopped for lunch at Maggpie's cafe on the way to Bishop. I remember her on Johnny Carson's or Letterman late night show. It was so much fun just to watch her talking to the truckers on CB radio. I still have a Magpie coffee mug and her book somewhere. I think she offered free coffee to the truckers. She'd say I'll make a fresh pot of coffee waiting for you and add water over already brewed coffee grind. Such a great memory. I dont know what happened and when she closed. We think of her every time we drive by Pearsonvill.


Cindy O'Neill Kennedy writes:
I raced Powder Puff on their dirt race track, 1980. So much fun and great memories! In the early 70s, we would ride up there just to look at all the hub caps!

David Merrigan writes:
Back in the 60’s, they had a cool race track. Good food also

Howdy Vassar writes:
Broke my leg there on the motocross track


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little lake
little lake
Lone surviving building, the post office, of the ghost town of Little Lake

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What remains of old U.S. 395 in the ghost town of Little Lake.

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What remains of old U.S. 395 in the ghost town of Little Lake.

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Looking south towards the ghost town of Little Lake.

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Looking north from hills by the ghost town of Little Lake.

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Looking south towards the ghost town of Little Lake.

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Old Southern Pacific RR grade south of Little Lake

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U.S. 395 south of Little Lake

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Old Southern Pacific RR grade heading into Little Lake

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Advertisement on the lava outcrop south of Little Lake
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Lava outcrop just south of Little Lake off of old U.S. 395

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Little Lake townsite - photo taken in the hills to the east of U.S. 395

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fossil falls

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Red Cinder Cone at the southern end of Owens Valley - March 2011

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Area to the east behind the Red Cinder Cone


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Red Cinder Cone
red cinder cone
Red Cinder Cone
red cinder cone
Red Cinder Cone
fossil falls area
Fossil Falls Area

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Red Cinder Cone

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Fossil Falls area - Dry Owens River in center of picture.
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

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Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

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Fossil Falls road sign

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Red Cinder Cone

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Area to the east behind the Red Cinder Cone

red cinder cone

Area to the east behind the Red Cinder Cone

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Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

fossil falls

Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)

fossil falls

Fossil Falls area
(Ancient drainage of Owens River from Owens Valley
during the glacial period 10,000 years ago)
glacial lakes
Pleistocene Lakes in the Mojave Desert
[Roadside Geology of Owens Valley]

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Red Cinder Cone at the southern end of Owens Valley - May 2016

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Red Cinder Cone at the southern end of Owens Valley - May 2016

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coso junction
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Remains of Sam Lewis' "High Lonesome Ranch" just west of Coso Junction.
See more of Sam Lewis HERE.
Read SAM LEWIS' Journal HERE

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View to the east at the Coso Mountains from the remains of Sam Lewis' "High Lonesome Ranch."

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Entrance to the remains of Sam Lewis' "High Lonesome Ranch"

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sage flat
olancha peak
Panorama of Olancha Peak, Olancha Pass and the Sage Flat Area

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Panorama of the southern end of Owens Lake from the Olancha Pass trail

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Panorama of the southern end of Owens Lake from the Olancha Pass trail

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The Road to Sage Flat

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Olancha Pass trail
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Owens Lake from the Olancha Pass trail
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Stock loading ramp at Sage Flat roadend

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Stock loading ramp at Sage Flat roadend


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dunmovin

dunmovin
Dunmovin, CA. ruins - Between Coso Junction and Olancha
dunmovin
Dunmovin, CA. ruins - Between Coso Junction and Olancha

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Dunmovin, CA. ruins - Between Coso Junction and Olancha

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grant
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Abandoned building in Grant, CA. in Owens Valley. The 1961 Twilight Zone Episode 23, Season 2, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" was filmed using this building.


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j.g. motel
The old J.G. Motel in Grant, CA

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cartago
cartago
olancha house
House in Cartago
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Bessie Brady and Molly Stevens boat landing in Cartago. The two boats hauled silver bullion across Owens Lake from the Cerro Gordo smelters at Keeler.

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Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns

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Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns

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Metal ant on house in Cartago

Cabin Bar Cafe - Then ... and ... Now
cabin bar cafe
Photo courtesy of Lawrence Thomas
cabin bar cafe
Phil Rosenberg writes: Bob Schwandt, my Dad and I played a lot of bluegrass music at that place in the 70's.

cabin bar ranch


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olancha

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olancha


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Big Pine Distributors located in the hills overlooking Olancha, CA
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Ranch Houise Cafe on U.S. 395 in Olancha, CA

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Sierra Nevada panorama off of State Route 190 just east of Olancha.


Jael Hoffman's Metal Art south of Olancha, CA on U.S. 395


Jael Hoffman, the "Land of Ono"

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metal art
metal art
metal art

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owens lake
owens lake
Owens Lake panorama from one of the lake dirt access roads off of California 190.

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Owens Lake panorama from one of the lake dirt access roads off of California 190.

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Horseshoe Meadows Road panorama of the northern end of Owens Lake

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Owens Valley dry lake from the old Mt. Whitney Pack Trains Carrol Creek Trail - 2013

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Owens Lake panorama from one of the lake dirt access roads off of California 190.

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bartlett
Bartlett
Pacific Alkali Company plant on the west shore of Owens Lake where once the town of Bartlett existed
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Pacific Alkali Company plant on the west shore of Owens Lake

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