Kadez Blog

Rainbow Falls is a must see for anyone visiting the Mammoth Lakes area. In the afternoon (after 2pm if I remember right) a rainbow appears at the foot of the falls.

Make sure you time this right since we met a couple of photographers that were quite upset, they hiked to the falls in the morning and missed the rainbow. Why they could not wait after hauling some major camera equipment to the foot of the falls I don’t know.

We did not miss the shot.

Here Caz and I are swimming in the falls. The pool is quite deep, the air is thick with water vapor and there is a strong breeze flowing off the falls.

Caz enjoyed swimming in the falls so much that he made us hike all the way back again the next day to take another dip in the fall pool.

So have you ever been to a ghost town?

We did get to explore a few interesting places on this trip, while camping at Twin Lakes our crew took some time out to explore the town of Bodie. Bodie is located near Bridgeport, Ca. not to far off of hwy 395.

Bodie was a gold mining town that grew to over 10,000 people in less than 20 years. From what is left is is hard to believe that this town once supported 10,000 and had 65 saloons!

Today they call Bodie a ghost town, it may be but there were sure allot of people there on this day.

Here we are Jeeping along the rim of Devils Punch Bowl.

Devils Punch Bowl is a volcanic explosion pit in the Mono lake basin. This entire area is volcanic, Pumice and Obsidian can be found all over the place.

Obsidian for those of you who don’t know is volcanic glass, Indians used this to make arrowheads and Surgeons have used Obsidian for scalpel blades. The stuff is everywhere and can slice your tires, we woke up the next morning with a flat. There was a big slice in the tire but when I refilled the tire it did not appear that this was the cause of the leak.