Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery

While driving along I-395 we were interested in the Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery. So we drove in the gate. It appeared to be closed down, except the gate was opn, and a fish pond with big rainbow trout, and ducks were occupying it. here's the photos:

Movie Flats

Craig's jeep

Cowboy country

GungaDin filmed right here

Sun shines through the clouds like a spotlight

Craig tries to relate to his Indian forefathers

        Ginger poses at the sight that a scene from the original movie,not TV show Rawhide was filmed

Audie Murphy rode across this scene

A perfect split rock

Cowboy Movies, and more

Here is the website for the museum:
The Lone Pine Film History Museum

Lone Pine, Ca is where many of the older cowboy movies were filmed. In the rocks and desert area just outside of town, and the backdrop of Mount Whitney an the Sierra Nevada mountains. Starting with the Silent Movies and Fatty Arbuckle, then the Singing Cowboys: Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, HopaLong Cassidy, , John Wayne, nearly ever famous actor from the 30's thru the present. Tremors with Kevin Bacon was filmed there.
After visiting the museum, we headed to "Alabama Hills;, and Movie Flat road, where the filming was done. First stop is where the original Gunga Din was filmed in 1939 with Cary Grant, Sam Jaffee, and Douglas Fairbanks.
Ginger loved climbing the rocks, where here favorite cowboys may have been having a shoot-out with the bad guys. Enjoy the photos.

                                       John Waynes Shirt and Hat he wore in The War Wagon

                                                            Dale Evans outfit

                                                       Ginger's favorite: Gene Autrey

                                     One of my favorite movies..now we're South From Alaska

                                               The dress that John Wayne gave "Angel"

                                      The car that Humphrey Bogart drove in High Sierra

                                            An English soldiers uniform, from Gunga Din

                                                       The LONE RANGER's outfit

                                                       The creature from Tremors

                                                         Kevin Bacons outfit from Tremors

 A hat from Walter Brennan

 Is this rifle from: Chuck Connors in The Rifleman or Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive ???

                                                        Roy Rogers display

                                                          Gunsmoke display

 Even a scene from Gladiator was filmed here, with Russell Crowe

California: Eastern Sierras

After resting at Craig's for a couple days, we're packed up in his Jeep Cherokee and heading out to the eastern Sieer-Nevada mountains.  After driving over the mountains north of Yosemite, we will drive up and down I-395, and spend 2 nights in the lovely town of Bishop, CA.

                Craig and Ginger, thats Half Dome in the Yosemite Valley behind them

                                                                     Ernie and Craig