Dear Bishop Pass...

Come to Oregon..

It's the nicest state in the Continental US.

We've got everything from ocean beaches, to year-round skiiing, to desert, to high plains, to thick forests, and everything in-between. We've even got the ewok forest (Jedadiah Smith State park in SW Oregon)

we've got waterfalls too..

You want it? we got it in oregon





























[edited by - aegrimonia on August 11, 2002 2:01:43 AM]

Then of course, there''s my favorite views of oregon.


Outlaw Dirt Late Model Racing.

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Original post by aegrimonia
Come to Oregon..

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aegrimonia is Oregon''s very own chamber of commerce.

Stibmit,
Seriously, I can recommend some really unbelievable stuff that far exceeds the cliched and the tourist trodden.

For California dayhikes, consider any of the following accessible from Hwy 395 in Eastern California:

• Piute Pass trail to Humphrey''s Basin.
  
• Bishop Pass trail to the top of 12,000 foot Bishop Pass.
  
• For something tougher, try the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek up to the 12,000 foot moraine below the huge East Face of Mt. Whitney.
  

All of the above are 10 to 15 mile roundtrip hikes that will fire your imagination and leave memories for a long long time. I would not classify those hikes as ''canned'' or ''neat hikes''. I would classify them as journeys into another world, transplanting you from this world to another for a day.

For backpacking, do any of those and add in the challenge of climbing a 13,000 or 14,000 foot peak while you''re doing it. All of those hikes will have you surrounded by 13,000 foot plus peaks.

Go to Yosemite if you want, but I believe what I just recommended to you beats Yosemite.

I''ve been to New Mexico a few times. I''ve been up and down and back and forth across Arizon numerous times. I''ve been to several areas in Utah several times. All I can say, is, sure, they''re great and worth visiting over and over again, but nothing draws me like Hwy 395 running through the Owens Valley in California.

Owens Valley is in the heart of Inyo County, a land of superlatives: The oldest living thing on Earth (the ancient bristlecone pine), the lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere (Death Valley), the deepest valley in the Western Hemisphere (Owens Valley), the highest point in the United States outside of Alaska (Mt. Whitney), the highest lake in the United States (Tulainyo Lake), two fourteen thousand foot mountain ranges, 14 of California''s 15 fourteen thousand foot peaks, the home of the Alabama Hills where many many movies have been filmed, a 100 mile long wall of granite two miles high (The Eastern Sierra escarpment), Fossil Falls, Saline Valley, the largest sand dunes in the U.S. (Eureka Sand Dunes), ecozones from below sea level to frozen alpine tundra and all ecozones inbetween...

And I suppose you''re California''s one-man Chamber of Commerce?

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And I suppose you''re California''s one-man Chamber of Commerce?

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Hahaha.

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Original post by Mordoch Bob
And I suppose you''re California''s one-man Chamber of Commerce?

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Nope. I was only speaking of one county. California has a huge number of counties.

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Original post by Anonymous Poster
Isn''t Canada full of unpopulated wilderness? I''m sure there''s lots of great stuff just hours from where you live.

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For certain, Canada does have more than its fair share of pristine wilderness. But I think the point of the original question was less where to go and more of a request for advice from a seasoned explorer.