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Last weekend we went up to Mammoth with two friends, Callie and Greg. We stayed at Adam's condo in the mountains and took a day trip up Sand Canyon.
Here is everyone (except Garrett) in front of the Grape.
Going up the trail was great fun, following a 10 year old child on a dirtbike. He was having trouble and we all found it very cute when his rear tire dug a hole in the sand and you could tell that he was very flustered with us behind him.
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The Grape in its natural habitat
Our arrival at the "unnamed lake" was a good signal for lunch. We unpacked and hung out by the lake which we named "Callie's Lake". Here are a few photos:
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Photo Credit: Callie
Camera: my iPhone
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Callie and Sam by the lake...
is that Bigfoot in the background?!?!
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Sam is Zen
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Greg and I posing in front of the Grape.
On the way back from the lake, unfortunately while Sam was driving, the tie rod broke loose. This means that one wheel turned one direction while the other wheel turned the other direction (as can be seen in the photo).
Needless to say, we crashed. We fixed it with wire since we were at the bottom of the trail (thank goodness) and made it back up to the town of Mammoth where we stopped at a hardware store for all the supplies we needed.
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Post-adventure drinks and dinner at Whiskey Creek
The next day we slept in, made a big breakfast and packed some sandwiches for the adventure home. Why was it an adventure driving home? We stopped and drove through the Alabama Hills and on Movie Road!
From Wikipedia: (The Alabama Hills are a popular location for television and movie productions (especially Westerns) set in an archetypical "rugged" environment. Since the early 1920s, 150 movies and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here, including Tom Mix films, Hopalong Cassidy films, The Gene Autry Show, and The Lone Ranger. Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle, and How the West Was Won, as well as more recent productions such as Tremors and Joshua Tree, were filmed at sites known as Movie Flats and Movie Flat Road. In Gladiator, actor Russell Crowe rides a horse in front of the Alabamas, with Mount Whitney in the background, for a scene presumably set in Spain. Star Trek Generations was filmed here in addition to Overton, Nevada and Paramount Studios. More recently, many parts of the films Ironman (film) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed here.)
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In front of some famous rocks!
Sam, Me, Greg
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Sam posing with Mt. Whitney in the background. We are going to climb Mt. Whitney next fall.
Until next time!
The Adventure Brigade
Here is everyone (except Garrett) in front of the Grape.
Going up the trail was great fun, following a 10 year old child on a dirtbike. He was having trouble and we all found it very cute when his rear tire dug a hole in the sand and you could tell that he was very flustered with us behind him.
The Grape in its natural habitat
Our arrival at the "unnamed lake" was a good signal for lunch. We unpacked and hung out by the lake which we named "Callie's Lake". Here are a few photos:
Photo Credit: Callie
Camera: my iPhone
Callie and Sam by the lake...
is that Bigfoot in the background?!?!
Sam is Zen
Greg and I posing in front of the Grape.
On the way back from the lake, unfortunately while Sam was driving, the tie rod broke loose. This means that one wheel turned one direction while the other wheel turned the other direction (as can be seen in the photo).
Needless to say, we crashed. We fixed it with wire since we were at the bottom of the trail (thank goodness) and made it back up to the town of Mammoth where we stopped at a hardware store for all the supplies we needed.
Post-adventure drinks and dinner at Whiskey Creek
The next day we slept in, made a big breakfast and packed some sandwiches for the adventure home. Why was it an adventure driving home? We stopped and drove through the Alabama Hills and on Movie Road!
From Wikipedia: (The Alabama Hills are a popular location for television and movie productions (especially Westerns) set in an archetypical "rugged" environment. Since the early 1920s, 150 movies and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here, including Tom Mix films, Hopalong Cassidy films, The Gene Autry Show, and The Lone Ranger. Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle, and How the West Was Won, as well as more recent productions such as Tremors and Joshua Tree, were filmed at sites known as Movie Flats and Movie Flat Road. In Gladiator, actor Russell Crowe rides a horse in front of the Alabamas, with Mount Whitney in the background, for a scene presumably set in Spain. Star Trek Generations was filmed here in addition to Overton, Nevada and Paramount Studios. More recently, many parts of the films Ironman (film) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed here.)
In front of some famous rocks!
Sam, Me, Greg
Sam posing with Mt. Whitney in the background. We are going to climb Mt. Whitney next fall.
Until next time!
The Adventure Brigade
