Just after dawn on Oct. 3, I pointed my car up a long, steep hill outside Bishop, in Inyo County, and climbed through the high desert scrub toward the towering peaks of the Eastern Sierra. For about ...
A LONG DAY OF LEAF-PEEPING... can challenge even the most practiced of fall fans. After all, even if you've been down a particularly colorful road before, where the cottonwoods go golden and the aspen ...
That eastern side of the Sierra Nevada is something special. Hot springs and desertscapes dot the 395 Highway as it skirts up the edge of the Cali-Nevada border, weaving between the 14,494-foot summit ...
SUMMER IS STILL SUMMERING, at least for a few more weeks, and a glance at most any thermometer will confirm what we already know: It isn't yet the moment for stowing our swimsuits, sunglasses, and ...