View of Mt Whitney from Lone Pine. What Molly would have seen from the Frosty Cone.
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Granite Creek Pack Station is a fictional place, but here is a look at Rock Creek Pack Station, a real outfit.
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Saddle shed at Rock Creek Pack Station.
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Mule corral at Rock Creek Pack Station.
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Somewhere on the Kern Plateau. It is country like this that Molly Mendoza rides through on her first pack trip with Dwight and Don.
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Crossing Templeton Meadow. Molly would have passed through here on her first trip with Dwight and Don.
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Wrangling the horses, Templeton Meadow.
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Group of riders at Ramshaw Meadows. It is at a nearby camp that Danny Garza and Slyvester Hawkins come visiting and Molly takes a swim in a beaver pond.
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The real Clyde the mule.
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Group heading up the switchbacks on the east side of Mono Pass.
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A pack string headed toward the summit of Mono Pass.
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This is the east side of Mono Passin in late July of a heavy snow year (I think it is 1986?). The snow here is 10 to 20 feet deep.
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Summit Lake on Mono Pass. Molly would have ridden past this lake a number of times that summer.
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Symmes Creek, Sheperds Pass trail head.
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View of east side of Shepards Pass from granite bowl below the pass. The trail tops out below the red line. The chute the trail climbs up is immediately to the right of the rock outcropping below the red line.
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Another view of Sheperds pass from the granite bowl.
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Just below the chute on Sheperds Pass. The mules are being unstrung before being loose-herded over the top.
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View up chute that leads to the top of the pass. Trail switchbacks up the chute on the right side of the photo. It then cross over the rock outcropping and tops out roughly in centerline of the ridge.
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In the chute. Trail (what trail?) is to the right of Rocky point in the center of the photo. Trail crosses behind rocky point and tops out on the pass.
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Pack String headed east over Sheperds Pass.
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View from upper portion of the Sheperds Pass trail. View east over Owens Valley and Inyo Mountian range.
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Horses and mules waiting their turn to drop down into the chute at top of Sheperds Pass.
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The top of Sheperds Pass, heading down towrds the chute.
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Top of the chute. There is supposed to be a trail here somewhere!
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This is the view west, just east of Sheperds Pass. Tyndall Creek basin and the Great Western Divide are the backdrop in this photo.
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