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This week we continue enjoying the Sierra Nevada’s dramatic east side, with a special side trip from Big Pine to the White Mountains and the Ancient…
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Just south of Bodie is Mono Lake. You could mistake this pale gray inland sea and its ghostly tufa towers for an eerie alien swimming pool on some other…
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One of the best reasons anywhere to pull off the highway is just south of Bridgeport and north of Mono Lake—Bodie, a gold-mining ghost town well worth the…
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The Great California Road Trip has rolled straight down from High Sierra summits to the edge of the Great Basin—a surprising transition, ecologically and…
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The Great California Road Trip rolls on, this week heading toward the Sierra Nevada’s spectacular east side.But first—weather permitting, and assuming…
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The Great California Road Trip continues this week, rolling over to the Sierra Nevada’s east side. Wherever you’re ultimately heading, on the eastern side…
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This week we wrap up our Volcanic California Tour, visiting several more special places you could add to the list, whether your road trip is for-real and…
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This week Up the Road heads up the trail—for solitude and some inspiration on short trips along the Pacific Crest Trail, in the shadow of the Cascades.…
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There are places—still—in California that are so remote, most people never get there, a fact I deeply appreciate. One of these places is the vast Modoc…
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“Lonely as God and white as a winter moon.” That’s how 19th-century poet and Pony Express rider Joaquin Miller described Mount Shasta, California’s most…