Friends of the Inyo Blog

FOI has teamed up with Rustic Pathways this summer for four trips themed around the Mono Basin.

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The Coyote Flat area just up the mountains from Bishop is one of the most phenomenally magnificent areas that one can drive right up to. With excellent spring wildflower displays and striking fall colors against the sage and piñon pine, this has been a popular destination for both motorized and non-motorized recreation for decades. 

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July 10th Margy Verba and Jack Shipley lead a wonderful hike to Bodie Peak with about 15 participants. Flowers were abunduant. The voluminous clouds created a great back drop and spared us the water drops. The area is so incredibly rich with wildlife. A few antelope were seen as well as all the small critters.

Potato Peak is kind of a cowpie shaped mountain in the northern end of the Bodie Hills, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

One of the West's most amazing places is in our backyard. The Bodie Hills are a national treasure--read Sunset editor Pete Fish's take on the newly proposed national monuments:

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Braving sunny wind-swept skies, temps hovering in the 50's, and the possibility of missing the Superbowl, we managed o

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For the second year in a row we worked for most of a week in Saline Valley with a group from Washington State University, out of Pullman, Washington. After an impressive two day "commute" from Washington to Bishop eight WSU-ers and three FOIers drove in the south way since the north entrance is closed by snow.

Well, the storm has come and not quite gone. Bishop aiport reported 4.0 inches in a twenty four hour period.