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A River flowing slowly between the golden meadow with low clouds sitting on the mountains in the background.Some black cows were eating or resting on the meadow.
I found this is one of the most beautiful place in mammoth, the Owens river.
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Look at how huge the cloud is! It’s hard to see this kind of cloud in LA. It might be able to hide a sky castle in it like the one in Miyazaki’s animation movie?
With the previous day’s hike and one night sleep, I felt I am well adjusted to the altitude. Today we planned to go a bigger hike.
We came to the same trail head again. Today we got up much earlier and got a closer parking spot, but still surprised to see so many early birds took the closest parking already.
[singlepic id=364 w=320 h=240 float=left]The trail forks not far from the trail head and keeps going up quickly. Then we stood way beyond the lakes and had a great view of them which we past by yesterday. Ah, the names are really after the shapes. Box lake has a square shape. Here you see the Heart lake. The shape is just like a heart!
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Our turn around spot was Mono pass which is at 12,000 feet elevation, the ground is rocky and sandy, almost no plants growing, the scenary is more like moon surface.