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02-27-2013, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Georgia / 0GE5 / KSSI
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Great photos. I hope you are into soaring as that area brings great memories of thermal and wave flights. I also have a friend at Dayton Airpark. I am pretty sure you either know George or will in the future.
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George
"God does not deduct from one's time on earth that which is spent in the air."
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02-27-2013, 12:40 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Hilton Head Island
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Lake Mono!
I really liked that picture at low altitude of Lake Mono!
I must have flown over that Lake a thousand times...in one of those contrails 
I've never seen it look so picturesque.
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02-27-2013, 01:29 PM
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What a great tour guide you are! Thanks Louise. Along with the others, I also appreciate your comments and photos.
Even though I'm a southerner, I do have an appreciation of the Reno area because my wife and I visited there twice while our son was stationed in the area. Of course we were ground-bound, but we still admired the wide open beauty of that part of the West.
Looking forward to some more "aerial tours of the great West." Maybe you could become a magazine editor! 
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?Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." Miriam Beard
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02-27-2013, 01:38 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton, Nevada --- A34
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Try it on the ground, too!
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Originally Posted by SmilingJack
I really liked that picture at low altitude of Lake Mono!
I must have flown over that Lake a thousand times...in one of those contrails
I've never seen it look so picturesque. |
I hope you have the opportunity to see the lake on the ground (or from a kayak in the lake) some day. It is spectacular and the peculiar tufa towers are a sight not to miss.
I'm glad folks are enjoying the photos. Start planning your own trips to visit us in a year or two!
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Louise Hose, Editor of The Homebuilder's Portal by KITPLANES
RV3B, NX13PL "Tsamsiyu" co-builder, TMXIO-320, test platform Legacy G3X/TruTrak avionics suite
RV-6 ?Mikey? (purchased flying) ? Garmin test platform (G3X Touch, GS28 autopilot servos, GTN650 GPS/Nav/Comm,
GNC255 Nav/Com, GA240 audio panel)
RV8, N188PD "Valkyrie" (by marriage)
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02-27-2013, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Chino, CA
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Very nice pictures and narrative. I never get tired of looking at the Sierras.
There is a sign as you head out of Mammoth Lakes that reads:
"Going to the mountains, is going home. John Muir"
The eastern Sierra is such a place.
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Chino, CA
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RV-6, sold, 820 hrs of fun.
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02-28-2013, 07:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
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I really enjoyed that....even followed along on a sectional to compare with the photos.
Judging from the terrain it looks like you guys have suffered all the Gulf coast humidity you can stand
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02-28-2013, 08:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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I drove that route too many times in the late 90's. Thanks to the kindness of a neighbor of Rosie's, I did a solo flight Rosamond to Tahoe and back two years ago. Excellent pictures, Louise, but trust me folks: they do not do the true majesty of this area justice! A personal favorite adventure, all of you should do it once if able. RV content: at my fuel stop in Bishop, I got to drool all over a nice -8 from Arizona!
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Sierra Nevada
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02-28-2013, 09:04 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DanH
Judging from the terrain it looks like you guys have suffered all the Gulf coast humidity you can stand |
Yup....I can't wait to just dry out for awhile - and not have to run the air conditioner in January just to keep things in the house from getting moldy...
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02-28-2013, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Ruston, Louisiana
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Nice!
Great photos Louise!
Thanks for sharing.
Mark
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02-28-2013, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
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Louise - nice geology tour! Reminds me of some fun field trips when I was a grad student in CA.
In addition to its other claims to fame Mono Lake was also where they filmed High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood classic).
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