Thursday, August 8, 2012
Last Day in the Sierras
We drove to Red Lake, a small round green gem surrounded by oxide rubble, to fish for native brown, brook and rainbows. We caught many little 6-8 inch Eastern Brook Trout, a beautiful specked fish with a pink-red tummy.
A beautiful small waterfall spills into Upper Virginia Lake from Red Lake, and at its ingress we fished again, and John caught a brown, while I caught several nice rainbows. The weather was balmy, windy. Dinner outdoors again at The Historic Mono Inn, watching the coming evening and the white plumes of smoke mixing with the fantastic cumulus clouds in the big empty sky over Mono Lake.
The Indian Fire, East of Mono Lake
We'd been seeing distant smoke for two days now, dining at the Mono Inn and watching sunsets. The local paper informed us today that there's a lighting-ingnited brush fire burning on BLM land 5 miles southeast of Mono Lake. Even LA fire department members joined to contain it. The terrain is sagebrush, but it's a vital ground for sage grouse, so losing territory for them is a sad event.
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