The Mining Ruins of the Inyo Mountains
Is this a landscape photo? No? I suppose this is a break from my normal psots, then.
I recently wrote a photo story about the Lonesome Miner Trail, a 40-mile backpack in California's Inyo Mountains with 25,000 ft of elevation gain and 23,000 ft of loss (65 km, +7700 -6900 m). Hardly anyone goes there because it involves a long 4wd road followed by days of steep hiking on trails that barely exist, and the water sources are few and far between. But there is an enormous quantity of historical remnants from the area's mining past. Each day we hiked to a new 1800s-era mining camp, and it was amazing. The ore cart in this photo, by the way, had a stamp indicating it was patented in 1908.
The article is at sgphotos.com/photostories/inyos/.
The Mining Ruins of the Inyo Mountains
Is this a landscape photo? No? I suppose this is a break from my normal psots, then.
I recently wrote a photo story about the Lonesome Miner Trail, a 40-mile backpack in California's Inyo Mountains with 25,000 ft of elevation gain and 23,000 ft of loss (65 km, +7700 -6900 m). Hardly anyone goes there because it involves a long 4wd road followed by days of steep hiking on trails that barely exist, and the water sources are few and far between. But there is an enormous quantity of historical remnants from the area's mining past. Each day we hiked to a new 1800s-era mining camp, and it was amazing. The ore cart in this photo, by the way, had a stamp indicating it was patented in 1908.
The article is at sgphotos.com/photostories/inyos/.