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Posted: 20 Aug 2014

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Palmetto, NV (0059)

Palmetto, NV (0059)
Among the ruins of the stamping mill in Palmetto. The mountains in the distance are the White Mountains in California.

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 Don Sutherland
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Wonderful shot.
9 years ago.
 slgwv
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Nice. Just a quibble--those mountains are the Whites. The Sierras are beyond. We climbed White Mountain Peak (from the UC experimental station, not the base!) in '07--I have an album on it.
Here's a pic from near the top of the Palmettos (complete with my shadow and the car's--it's not one of my better efforts!) looking west. SR 266 is in the valley to the left, and the Whites are on the skyline to the right, with the high point White Mtn Peak. The Sierra crest is barely visible on the skyline to the left:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/22527595/in/album/431575
9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
I've been up to the Bristelecone pine forests in the Whites a few times, they're quite dramatic.

I've never quite understood how mountain ranges are named. I thought Sierra was a name for the broader range of mountains along the Calif/Nev border and that there were subdivisions within that. I changed the name on this one.
9 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Well, "sierra nevada" is just "snowy mountain range," so it probably was applied more widely originally, particularly when knowledge of the geography was still a bit vague! But today "Sierra Nevada" is restricted to the main range starting around Tehachapi and petering out somewhere around Portola. A UNR colleague got on my case once when I referred to the mountains just west of Carson City/Reno as the Sierra. Altho historically they were part of the Sierra _sensu stricto_, and indeed gave their name to "Nevada," they're now the Carson Range! The range defining the east side of the Owens Valley is the White/Inyo Mountains, the name changing at Westgard Pass, presumably for historical reasons.

One of these days we'd like to get back to the Bristlecone Grove. We were just passing thru on the way to the trailhead and didn't have time to linger. Twice a year the UC opens the Barcroft Station to the public, which saves 2 miles or so and ~1000 ft on the summit hike!
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
The Patriarch Grove (the one out near the gate to the UC station) is one of my favorite places, though it definitely takes time to get out to it (which thankfully makes it less trampled than the main grove.)

I'm relatively famous for being a little loose on some types of details, mainly because I lean towards the words the populous use unless I feel it necessary to make the distinction. (e.g., sometimes SF is the whole bay area, sometimes just the city/county). I think its the case for most Californians that there are really just two names they use for the mountains running along the west and east boundaries of the state -- the Sierras and the Coastal. (You made me just look, Mt. San Jacinto is outside my front door and I thought it was part of the Santa Rosa's, but just found I was wrong! )
9 years ago.

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