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Mosquito Lake, in Alpine County, CA is an amazing, mirror-surfaced body of water at 8,000 ft on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Range (Pacific Grade). It is accessible only in the warmest months of the year, the highway being closed by snow rest of the time. The rustic hunting cottages are National Forest Recreation Residences.
Looking at these pictures I can't help hearing Wagner's Ride of the valkyries running through my head
Ph.D. student Cassie Steele and advisor Emily McDermott, assistant professor of entomology, set up a trap used to capture mosquitoes in the field. They published a survey of earlier studies identifying and characterizing the hearing abilities of mosquitoes. (UA System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller) (UA System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller)
The digger nicknamed "Mosquito". This is a panorama shot that didn't come out right but I wanted to show all the lines on this thing.
Part of the Ferropolis set.
Dad (left), John Tice, and his navigator, 'Chalky' White in front of Mosquito. I believe he was serving with 540 squadron when this was taken.