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Tag Archives: Lake Tahoe
Southwest Airlines Aerial Views, 12-19-17 and 12-26-17
After visiting the West Coast earlier in the month, Kathy and I returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for the Holidays. The round-trip flights on this occasion provided lots of photographic opportunities. For the the Albuquerque to Oakland flight … Continue reading
Posted in California, SWA Flights-photography
Tagged Albuquerque, altamont ca, bald mountain nv, bear valley ca, Cape Solitude, East Walker River nevada, Grand Canyon, hawthorne nv, Lake Mead, Lake Tahoe, livermore ca, Mt. Taylor, New Melones Reservoir, Parashant Wash, sonora peak california, stanislaus peak ca, topaz lake ca, Tracy ca, walker lake, wheeler peak california, Whitmore Wash, wind turbine
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SWA Flight, Las Vegas to Reno, Apr. 3, 2017
One very rewarding aspect of air travel that takes you over familiar landscapes is the opportunity it gives you to see and identify particular landforms and landmarks from above. I have enjoyed photographing such on the many flights I’ve taken between … Continue reading
Posted in SWA Flights-photography
Tagged Bridgeport CA, CA, Death Valley, Deep Springs Valley, East Walker River, Homewood Ski Area CA, Lake Tahoe, Mammoth Mtn Ski Area, Mono Lake, Mt. Rose Ski Area NV, Mt. Whitney, NV, Owens Valley, Palisades CA, Reno NV, Sawtooth Ridge, Sierra Nevada, Topaz Reservoir, Twin lakes CA, West Walker River NV, White Mountains NV
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We Go “Out West” – Summer, 1955
In 1955, my parents, my Aunt Etta and myself left New York City for a multi-week trip to the western National Parks and the West Coast. I was fifteen at the time. We traveled in a brand-new black Dodge, which never … Continue reading
Posted in 1950s, Family, Fishing, New York City, Personal history, Photography, River-running (USA&Mexico)
Tagged ahwahnee buttress yosemite, bighorn mounntains wyoming, Black Hills South Dakota, bright andel point grand canyon, buffalo wyoming, colorado springs, El Capitan, firefall yosemite, fishing bridge yellowstone, garden of the gods colorado, gillette wyoming, glacier national park montana, Glacier Park Lodge montana, glacier point yosemite, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Lodge, Kadoka south dakota, Lake Tahoe, lake trout, Las Vegas, manitou and pikes peak railway, manitou springs colorado, many glaciers hotel, Meadowlark Lake Wyoming, monterey peninsula, mt. lassen, mt. rushmore south dakota, powder river pas wyoming, rainbow trout, san fgrancisco, swiftcurrent lake montana, Ten Sleep Canyon Wyoming, union printers home colorado, utah, Vegas, wall drug south dakota, wawona tree yosemite, yellowstone cutthroat trout, yellowstone lake, yellowstone national park, yellowstone river, yosemite national park, yosemite point buttress
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Road Trip, Part 8 – The East Walker River and Pyramid Lake, NV, Sept. 30-Oct. 5/14
Kathy and I bought 2-day Nevada fishing licenses at Ken’s Sporting Goods, in Bridgeport, in anticipation of fishing the Nevada portion of the East Walker River the following day. On the morning of Sept. 30, we left our campsite at … Continue reading
Posted in Fishing, Personal history, Photography
Tagged Bridgeport CA, brown trout, carson city nevada, crayfish, East Walker River nevada, gardnerville nevada, garter snake, hawthorne nevada, lahontan cutthroat trout, Lake Tahoe, minarets california, minden nevada, Mono Lake, mt ritter, mt. banner, nixon nevada, otter, Pyramid Lake nevada, pyramid lake paiute tribe, Reno, sutcliffe nevada, truckee river, tufa formation, tui chub, Walker Lake Nevada, west walker river nevada
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Southwest Airlines – Oakland to Albuquerque
The flight went first over the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, then up the Mokelumne River, with Tahoe visible to the north. We next flew past Walker Lake, in Nevada, then the Toiyabe Range. Clouds obscured the ground until we were over … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged Antioch california, Bluff Utah, Comb Ridge, Forgotten Canyon, Franks Tract State Recreation Area California, Lake Powell, Lake Tahoe, Mokelumne River, Montezuma Creek Utah, Pardee dam, Sacramento River, Sacramento/San Joaquin delta, San Joaquin delta, San Joaquin river, San Juan River, Sierras, Toiyabe range, utah, Walker Lake Nevada
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Road Trip: 9/1 to 10/4/13. Part 2, Idaho and California
We followed the Snake River downstream into Idaho, stopping at Twin Falls to view Shoshone Falls. We were in for a surprise, being unaware of the extent to which the river is seasonally drawn down to supply irrigation water to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal history
Tagged aligncenter, carpinteria state beach california, Chinese restaurant, Elko, elko nevada, incense cedar, kelp, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Shoshone Falls, shoshone falls idaho, Sierra Nevada, snake river idaho, sugar pine point state park california, twin falls idaho
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