Friends of the Inyo Blog

  • Bodie Peak--July 10, 2010

    Posted Tue, 08/03/2010 - 13:13 by board

    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.

  • Friends of the Inyo Names Stacy Corless as Executive Director

    Posted Mon, 06/07/2010 - 22:05 by Anonymous

     
    BISHOP, CA, June 7, 2010 – Friends of the Inyo, a non-profit conservation organization
    dedicated to the preservation, exploration and stewardship of the region's public lands,
    has named Stacy Corless as its Executive Director. 
     
    "The Board of Directors of Friends of the Inyo is very pleased to have hired Stacy

  • Springtime Skiing in the Bodie Hills

    Posted Sun, 05/09/2010 - 16:20 by drew

    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).

  • Desert Alive in the Inyo Mountains - 5 May 2010

    Posted Fri, 05/07/2010 - 15:08 by PaulMc

    Yesterday, FOI Conservation Associate Andrew Schurr, Inyo National Forest Geologist Margie DeRose and I spent the day reviewing old mine shaft & adit sites along the Mazourka Canyon corridor in the Inyo Mountains that FOI's Stewardship Crew will be fencing this season as part of an American Reinvestment and Recovery Act contract.

    Location

    United States
    36° 52' 46.6356" N, 118° 4' 51.798" W

  • Bodie Hills in Sunset Magazine

    Posted Tue, 04/27/2010 - 14:15 by Stacy Corless

    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:

    Location

    United States
    38° 12' 48.1212" N, 119° 3' 26.874" W

  • Golden Trout trip with Backcountry Horsemen

    Posted Sat, 06/27/2009 - 16:36 by Todd Vogel

    3020In early June we did a great trip down in the Golden Trout Wilderness, at the invitation of the Backcountry Horsemen and the Pa

  • 2009 Chocolate Peak Winter Expedition Successful!

    Posted Tue, 02/03/2009 - 08:28 by Todd Vogel

    chocpkfeb-9Braving sunny wind-swept skies, temps hovering in the 50's, and the possibility of missing the Superbowl, we managed o

    Location

    United States
    37° 24' 30.906" N, 117° 55' 42.4128" W

  • Pulling Weeds

    Posted Fri, 04/25/2008 - 10:51 by Todd Vogel

    thistle1What is a weed?

  • More Tamarisk Bites the Dust

    Posted Sun, 03/16/2008 - 05:37 by Todd Vogel

    WSU-Saline-15For 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.

  • January storm

    Posted Sun, 01/06/2008 - 18:58 by Todd Vogel

    IMG_9788After a powerful and much needed winter storm things are finally starting to dry out and it has been pleasant enough these past few days to go out and walk around. One of my favorite hikes is out on the Tablelands,

  • Update from January 5, 2008

    Posted Sat, 01/05/2008 - 17:00 by Todd Vogel

    piper10010Well, the storm has come and not quite gone. Bishop aiport reported 4.0 inches in a twenty four hour period.

  • New Year of FOI

    Posted Wed, 01/02/2008 - 16:27 by PaulMc

    So this is test. A test of the blog posting function. I have never posted on a blog before. i'm sooooo excited. Okay this is weird. Here is a picture to go aloing with my blog dropping. the ridge

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