Join Friends of the Inyo’s Trail Ambassadors each week for Trail Work Thursdays. Get out for a morning and help clean up and maintain popular high country trails. Bring sturdy shoes, work clothes, food and water. Gloves, tools, and fun provided. Be prepared to hike as far as 4 miles. We’ll be working on different projects in different locations each week, so it may be a 20 minute drive to the trail head. Meet at 8:30 am at the Mammoth Lake Welcome Center parking lot.
Celebrate another year of preservation, exploration and stewardship at the Annual Friends of the Inyo Rendezvous on Saturday, September 23 at the Upper Deadman Creek Group Camp on the edge of the Owens River Headwaters Wilderness! Enjoy hiking during the day or relaxing at the campground with fellow members. In the evening, FOI will host dinner followed by live music around the campfire and sleeping under the stars. The Rendezvous will finish with a full breakfast (massive egg scramble!) on Sunday morning. Where: Upper Deadman Creek Group Camp (no water available, so bring your own) When: Guests are welcome to arrive anytime...
Nestled between the Inyo Mountains and Malpais Mesa Wildernesses, Conglomerate Mesa is a Joshua tree, pinyon- juniper studded roadless landscape which we have been fighting to protect since 2008 when gold mining threats began to emerge there. Once again this high desert gem of public land is under attack from mining interests. We will venture out to Conglomerate and learn about the current project which proposes to drill seven exploratory drill sites to locate gold deposits. Recently designated as California Desert National Conservation Land, we will learn what is at stake and what this new designation could mean for protecting this...
This year's Fall Highball will feature two stewardship project options: choose between the Buttermilks and the Volcanic Tablelands for a fun morning's work. Meet at 8:30am on Sunday, November 5 in the Black Sheep parking lot. We'll have free breakfast and coffee, and an exclusive prize giveaway just for stewardship volunteers! The event will finish up around 12pm, so there will be plenty of time to climb that afternoon. Don't miss this chance to give back to our treasured local climbing areas.
Volunteers are needed to help plant native shrubs near Convict Lake. We’ll be planting bitterbrush in a previously developed area to encourage native revegetation and reduce erosion. This effort will contribute to a healthier ecosystem in the future. So join Friends of the Inyo, Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association, and the Inyo National Forest, and help support our local ecosystems. Please wear close toed shoes and long pants. Tools and gloves provided. All ages welcome. Meet at the junction of Highway 395 and Convict Lake Road at 8:30. Work site is walking distance away. Coffee and light breakfast provided. For more...
Join us in Bishop for the Backcountry Film Festival. Check our festival page for details. For tickets, go to Eventbrite.
Join us in Lone Pine for the Backcountry Film Festival. For event details, check our festival page. For tickets, go to Eventbrite.
Join Friends of the Inyo for the Backcountry Film Festival in Mammoth Lakes at the USFS Auditorium. For details, check our festival page. Purchase tickets on Eventbrite.
'Tis the season...to plant bitterbrush! Volunteers plant bitterbrush near Convict Lake this November. Photo by Wendy Schneider Join Friends of the Inyo, the Fort Independence Indian Reservation, the California Native Plants Society, and the Inyo National Forest for an afternoon of planting native shrubs along the banks of Oak Creek. Oak Creek was devastated by a fire and flood nearly a decade ago. The shrubs we plant will help to stabilize streambank soils, restore ecosystem function, and protect cultural sites within this beautiful riparian area. We'll meet at the Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery just north of Independence at 1pm on Thursday, December 14....
Join us out at the Buttermilk Boulders for a climbing stewardship project on Sunday, January 21 at 9am. We'll be collaborating with Touchstone Climbing to give this beloved climbing destination a New Year's facelift.