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Boundary Peak with new snow, as seen from a pullout on the southbound US Hwy 6 yesterday.

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A photo of four mountain peaks, two in the front arecbig and imposing flanks with little snow and the two behind are tall and are covered with new snow. The sky is a gorgeous blue with four cute little puff clouds. The foreground is a long plain of sagebrush marching up to meet the mountains. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, on Aprul 23, 2026.
April 24, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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The sunset on the Eastern Southern Sierras at the southbound US-395 and Kennedy Meadows Rd was amazing this evening.

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A desert road in the middle of the photo going up to the mountainous horizon with a spectacular sunset just behind the mountains. The sky just above the mountains is a bright gold moving into a orange before melding into the twilight blue sky. Scattered clouds are glowing apricot from the descending sun. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, taken on Fri March 27, 2026 on the Kennedy Meadows road.
March 28, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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Intake Lake #2 has ice, frozen swim buoys, and interesting shadows. Bishop Creek, Aspendell, Calif.

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Photo of an iced up lake with a lightly snowy mountain in the background. To the left is the concrete hydroelectric dam, to the right is a steel and concrete bridge to the intake control (not the technical term). In the middle is a line of frozen swimming buoys to keep folks away and an interesting shadows. Photo by Jenifer Hanen at Intake Lake #2, Bishop Creek, California taken on Dec. 9, 2025.
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Might be Mars over Mt. Tom, it might also be a plane. Late twilight tonight in Bishop, Calif.

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Big dark blue late twilight sky with a bright red dot that might be the Planet Mars and it might be a plane. Middle ground is backbiting black high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Foreground is short sagebrush and autumnal yellow grass lit by car headlights. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Nov. 4, 2025 in Bishop, Calif.
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Yesterday's snowstorm.

Photo by Jenifer Hanen, October 14, 2025, Silver Lake Campground, June Lake, California.

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Mountain campground scene in the snow. Foreground is a cement USFS picnic table and a brown metal bear box covered in a few inches of new snow. Middle ground is autumnal yellow aspen trees with a stand of dark green pine trees. The background is two rocky, craggy mountains. The whole scene is covered with new snow. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on Oct 14, 2025 at Silver Lake USFS Campground in June Lake, California.
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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New snow on the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains today, it was snowing in the high country as I drove away from Bishop, Calif. this afternoon.

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The top half of the image is big fluffy snow clouds dropping snow on the high mountains and rain in the Owens Valley. Middle ground is the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains with new snow. Foreground is low hills and a ranch fence with sagebrush. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken just south of Big Pine, CA on Oct 3, 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Autumnal Aspen Trees on the Bishop Pass trail above South Lake, Inyo County, California at 10,000 ft or so. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on the upwards hike this afternoon.

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Photo of a high mountain lake with singling framed by autumnal yellow aspen trees in the foreground and the background is the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains at the Bishop Pass. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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#GarnetFire smoke creeping through the passes to the Eastern Sierras yesterday. AQI in Mammoth Lakes was in the 500s yesterday afternoon.

Photo taken in Bishop, Calif by me looking west. The sky actually looked like this.

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Dark foreground with road, middle ground is layers of wildfire smoke draping and obscuring the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Above is a red brown smoke cloudy sky with a fiery red sun. There are peeps of blue sky but the smoke is rolling through. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
September 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Late dusk sky in shades of violet and dusty pink with a Crescent nearly first quarter Moon high in the southern sky. Foreground is a darker chalk hill with the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in the farther background. Photo by Jenifer Hanen taken Aug 30, 2025.
August 31, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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The morning after the rain: Big blue sky with a few layers of puffy sky. Eastern high Sierra Nevada Mountains in dappled sunlight in the middle ground. A high ridge behind Mt Morrison and McGee Mountain may have snow on it. Foreground is the open grass of a mostly empty Brown's Owens River campground. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on August 24, 2025 just before 8am.
August 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Second photo of the smokey skies of August: One evening past full Moon rising over the trailer storage area. The sky is dusky red and purple with clouds and wildfire smoke. The partially risen Moon is large on the horizon and dark red. The foreground is dark with a few campground trailers in the fading light. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Aug 9, 2025.
August 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Vivid sunset in wildfire season. Other places have the dog dogs of August, California has smokey skies of August. The Photo is 90% smoke filled sky in vivid, neon shades of orange and yellow as the sun is deep in the western sky, set behind the smoke obscured Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Small band of dark foreground is some cars and tents at the Campground. Photo by Jenifer Hanen on Aug 9, 2025.
August 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Native Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains leopard lily, Lilium pardalinum, wildflowers in a deep green forest glade. Six small 2 inch wide yellow-orange flowers with red brown spots on the inner side of the curved up flower petals. Each flower bends down on its little branch off the main stem and the flower's stamens extend half again as long below the flower cap. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
July 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Glorious Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains sunset. Sun is below the horizon but there is a golden apricot glow extending 10° into the sky which slowly transforms into a pale blue at the top of the frame. But the truly glory is in the scattered post thunderstorm dark violet clouds whose undersides are an electric pink from the remaining sun's rays striking them. Foreground is a dusky dark campground with tents, trailers, et al. Photo by Jenifer Hanen this weekend.
July 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Today's escape from the heat : Rock Creek

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Mountain stream with fast water running around boulders, green willows and pine trees lining the bank. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen at Rock Creek Lake, Inyo County, California.
July 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Photo of a small winding mountain stream with green vegetation on the stream banks, as well as dappled sunlight and tree trunks in the background. Photo taken above Horseshoe Lake, in Mammoth Lakes, California by Jenifer Hanen on Sat, June 28, 2025.
June 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Late this afternoon on a walk around Horseshoe Lake. There is still big patches of snow at the lake and the streams are running. Really lovely at 9,000 ft.

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Mountain stream with spring snow melt rushing down to a lake. Pine trees growing tall on the edge of the stream with dappled sunlight hitting the water and ground. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
June 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Dramatic evening sky with layers of dark rain clouds, bright thundercloud tops, and whispered upper atmosphere clouds at the top of the photo. Middle ground is the eroded chalk hill and the foreground is local sedge grass, a line of dumpsters to the left and on the right the local biege plastic port-a-potty. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Sunday June 8, 2025 at 7:40 pm or thereabouts.
June 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Close up view of open, flamboyant yellow cactus flowers in contrast with the pale green of the cactus paddles. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen in the late afternoon at the parking area of Astorga's Mexican restaurant in Bishop, California.
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Very last bits of the sunset twilight with layers of brooding dark violet and dark grey clouds taking up most of the photo with a little sliver of orange light at the horizon. Bottom of the photo is black outline of the mountains and a camp fire in the bottom left. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on May 31, 2025 at Brown's Owens River campground.
June 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Dark dusk sky with a band of late twilight sky hugging the mountainous horizon with the planet Jupiter bright as it sets, top of sky is dark with stars. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
May 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Rather spectacular stacked lenticular cloud from Monday afternoon.

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Four layer lenticular cloud, of which only the bottom two layers of round lens like cloud is clearly defined and the other two out layers can be seen by their left edges as the top part of the cloud mushrooms out in a fuzzy all, in a dark blue sky. A line of beaten trash dumpsters can be seen in the bottom right of the image. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A clump of Western Blue Flag wild iris flowers in the foreground. The wild iris flowers are smaller and more elegantly dainty than big showy bred for the garden irises. The flowers are a pale lavender with stripes of white, patches of blue and yellow. The iris' leaves are a rich green. In the middle and background is a flooded cow meadow with many more clumps of wild iris flowers. Perfect spring moment in Bishop, California. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
May 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Kramer Junction Pilot Truck Stop and Gas Station, view from the car exit this evening.

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Rear ends of four container trucks parked near the car / auto exit of the Pilot Truck Stop and Gas station with a patch of blue sky amongst dark rain clouds late in the afternoon. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com
April 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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The view opposite of the Conway Summit View Area on the US-395, taken on Earth Day 2025.

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Bright blue sky with a few whispered clouds, a graded sandy hill dotted with dark green bushes, and at the bottom of the image the pale gray tarmac of the US-395 highway at Conway Summit. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, take April 22, 2025.
April 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM