I archived this cache because of Covid. We did not travel for almost a whole year and could not do maintenance here. We are on the road again and here's the replacement cache!!!
Making that long drive South on the 395 from Reno, Mammoth? Not only can you stretch your legs here...you can take in a beautiful view of the Owens Valley and snag a cache!
Extending for almost 100 miles long, trending north-south, the valley was inhabited by Indians for many years. Joseph Walker in 1833 was the first white man to discover the valley. In 1845 John C. Fremont named the valley, a river and a lake, after Richard Owens, an Army captain in his expedition to this area.
It is bounded by the Sierra Nevada on the west and the Inyo and White Mountains on the east. The mountains on either side (including Mount Whitney) reach above 14,000 ft (4,300 m) in elevation, while the floor of the Owens Valley is at 4,000 ft (1,200 m), making the valley one of the deepest in the United States. The bed of Owens Lake, now a dry alkali flat, sits on the southern end of the valley. The valley provides water to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the source of one-third the drinking water for Los Angeles, and is famous as the scene of one of the fiercest and long-running episodes of the California Water Wars.
Historical events in Owens Valley inspired aspects of the film Chinatown.
The Sierra Nevada casts the valley in a rain shadow, which makes Owens Valley "the land of little rain".
Down in the Valley below this cache there is a very cool Virtual cache "Zoo View"(GCHCP4)
Cache is log only BYOP please