After our great time with the Gun Bloggers, we headed toward home via the Owens Valley. At one point, we stopped at Manzanar (more on that later) where I snapped several images of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. I stitched them together to make this panoramic image.
Mount Whitney, the highest point in the CONUS is visible in this image. I can’t pick it out – can you? Click the thumbnail image below to enlarge.
Nice panorama! I’m guessing it’s the slightly darker mountain to the right and behind the range a bit – below some clouds there..
It was really a great pleasure to meet you guys!
The pleasure was ours, believe me.
Some quick research on Mount Whitney:
It’s the peak seen in the center of the photo above. We were approximately in the red circle (map below) when I took the photos. Whitney would be one of the peaks to the left of Mt. Stanford seen in the center of the big panorama.
My dad climbed it once while in the Scouts, and was rather disappointed to meet people taking the easy way, day-hike, up from Lone Pine…that must have been back in the late 30’s.
I’ve never climbed it, but over the years have flown by it going up the Owens Valley. I say ‘by it’ because most of the little single-engine airplanes we flew had a service ceiling at or below 15,000 feet MSL.
Damsel got a shot of Mount Whitney last December from Olancha, a bit further south from Lone Pine.