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Just got back from a drive up to Mono Village outside of Bridgeport and I’ll tell you what, the Eastern Sierra is alive with fall color right now. Everything from the highest areas up Bishop Creek and Rock Creek to the lower areas around June Lake Loop and the Parker bench are turning right now. I can’t remember a time when everything at all elevations has changed at the same time. Hwy 395 is a beautiful drive at this time.

And yet there are still areas that are green too. Lee Vining Canyon is still mostly green. Conway Summit is a mixture of bright gold and deep green. The Twin Lakes area near Bridgeport is awesome right now. Bright yellows and many oranges.

Drove up Bishop Creek yesterday and the middle fork from Aspendell to Lake Sabrina is beautiful. If it’s not peaking right now, it will be soon. South fork is coming along nicely, but it’s not nearly as pretty as the middle fork. I don’t know about the north fork because I didn’t drive up there. It was pretty windy up Bishop Creek yesterday and extremely windy in Bishop Last night. Hopefully the wind didn’t hurt things to much.

If you can get into the Eastern Sierra in the next week or two you will be treated to quite a show. If you can’t make it until the middle of Oct you might be to late.

This will be my last post before leaving on my trip. I won’t be back until Sat. the 13th. If I get a chance I’ll try to post from the road, but no promises.

For those of you who have news about the fall colors over the next two weeks, please feel free to comment on this post to let everyone know what’s happening.

Well all of the relatives have went home and it’s just me and Scout again. Things went well on Saturday. Tammy’s memorial turned out nice. Mother Nature was kind to us and it turned into a beautiful day. I was very worried Friday night because we had quite a big thunderstorm come through that brought a lot of rain, thunder and lightning and some hail too.

We put Tammy’s ashes up Bishop Creek where we were married. The trees were beginning to change there and it was very pretty. We even had a little snow spit on us.

I will be heading to Wisconsin next Wed. I’ll try to get some updates on fall colors before then, but I can’t promise anything. I’m still going to be pretty busy this week.

Winter Storm watch is in effect for the Sierra Nevada for today and tomorrow. Here is the latest from the NWS;

...POTENT EARLY SEASON STORM FOR THE SIERRA TONIGHT AND
SATURDAY..

.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY OFF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST
WILL RAPIDLY MOVE NORTH THROUGH CALIFORNIA AND INTO NEVADA TONIGHT
AND SATURDAY. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW IS EXPECTED TO SPREAD OVER
MONO COUNTY THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

CAZ073-211815-
/O.CON.KREV.WS.A.0009.070922T0500Z-070922T2200Z/
MONO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIDGEPORT...COLEVILLE...LEE VINING..
MAMMOTH LAKES
315 AM PDT FRI SEP 21 2007

...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH
SATURDAY AFTERNOON ABOVE 7500 FEET..

A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW WILL SPREAD OVER MONO COUNTY THIS EVENING.
SNOW LEVELS ABOVE 9000 FEET EARLY THIS EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO
FALL TO 7000 TO 7500 FEET BY SATURDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL TOTALS OF
6 TO 10 INCHES ABOVE 7500 FEET ARE POSSIBLE...WITH OVER A FOOT
POSSIBLE AT THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS.

THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY
CREATE HAZARDOUS WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS.

If you are planning on hiking the Sierra back country over the next 5 days you’d be smart to change your plans. The local weather forecasters are now calling for 6 – 8 inches of snow above 9000′ by Saturday. A pretty good early season storm is knocking on the door and it will be getting nasty in the high mountains.