We started out south of Bishop cruisin' some dirt roads in search of something to photograph. We pretty much came up empty, but we found a lot of places that didn't need to be photographed. We headed out of town on US 6, a couple thousand miles from Massachusetts (we know, because the sign said so). Brooks remembered a place called Chidago Canyon, about eighteen miles north of Bishop. We headed there and found it to be one of those places that no one really knows about but is amazingly wonderful. It reminded me of the little arroyo in Utah from a few years ago, but it was pink, not grey.
Chidago Canyon is not very wide
Chidago Canyon in the sun
We photographed there for a couple of hours and then stumbled upon Deer Springs Road. We followed that road for a few miles and came upon some gnarled pine trees in the rocks. We took advantage of the serendipity and spent some time photographing there.
Just off Deer Springs Road
From there, it was back to Bishop for either a late lunch or an early dinner. Because we liked the Chidago Canyon so much, we tried to come back and photograph it very late in the day. On our way back to Chidago, we stopped at a small roadside State Park. The draw for this park was the number and quality of its petroglyphs. It took us quite a while to find them, but they were pretty spectacular if you were into the whole ancient aliens theories.
Lots of Petroglyphs on this rock
See the Lunar Lander on the middle rock?
Chidago Canyon was a different looking place in the early evening.
Chidago Canyon, evening
As we lost the light for the day, we headed back to Bishop detouring for a quick survey of an abandoned pumice mine. We don't think the Pumice mine will be worth a return trip.
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