Yellow Sky
William A. Wellman. 1948
Rocks
Unnamed Road, Lone Pine, CA 93545, USA
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Alabama Hills has endless potential.
📸 by Ryan Ditch @ryanditchphoto
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formation,
Alabama Hills, north of Lone Pine, California.
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Bad Day at Black Rock
John Sturges. 1955
Desert
Horseshoe Meadows Rd, Lone Pine, CA 93545, USA
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Two lovers?
Alabama Hills, Payahǖǖnadǖ / Owens Valley, California. 18 Nov 2019.
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Alabama Hills (Lone Pine CA)
1 April 2023
After two weeks in San Francisco, I’m on the road again, on my way to Arizona. I’ve got some ideas for rides along the way and this was one of them. Fortunately the weather cooperated, providing me a sunny, clear afternoon with the temperature in the low 60s.
Lone Pine is in the Owens Valley, immediately east of the southern Sierras and Mount Whitney (which at 14,500’ is the highest point in the lower 48, although it’s only barely higher than Mount Rainier in Washington and Mount Elbert in Colorado). The Alabama Hills are weathered granitic knobs that protrude from the lower portion of the alluvial fans, just west of town, and have been the backdrop for many old western movies and TV shows.
My ride climbed through the hills on Tuttle Creek Road and returned to Lone Pine on the main Whitney Portal Road. My two side trips were very different. The first was a long straight climb on Horseshoe Meadows Road to the gate that marks its current closure (a couple of miles before the first big switchbacks and probably where I would have begun seeing snow). The turnaround was right where the road reached the top of the alluvial fan and began climbing the mountains themselves.
The second detour, but also the main reason for the ride, was riding out and back on Movie Road through the main part of the Alabama Hills. It was packed with tourists (only a few others were on bikes). I think the combination of the granitic soils (grus) and some recent road grading were responsible for Movie Road being awfully sandy in places and difficult to ride. It was closed to cars just a couple miles in, apparently due to some recent washouts (yup, it’s been raining hard everywhere in California this winter), but I continued for a ways before turning around. It would have been fun to explore more of the side roads, but the sand was deep and loose and I would have been walking the bike.
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Lone Ranger by Sapna Reddy Photography
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Where the mountains meet the desert! Came across this scene last weekend driving through Alabama HIlls.
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