Solo Mission

Over the hills to the East Side. What, what! A little weekend excursion if you will.
Can we take a moment to remember that it is nearly the end of June and there is still a ton of snow, particularly at the higher elevations. Yeah, it's crazy. Lakes are still frozen. Really? Where is summer?

On the other side.
Mono Lake! I do love me some tufas. For those of you that aren't on the up and up as far as tufas are concerned...they are the crazy limestone formations found along the lake shore. In addition to looking bizarre, I mostly just like to say their name. A lot.

The wind was whipping up the foam along the shore which was a new feature I hadn't seen before. Kind of fun.

The following day things calmed down, no more foam but nice reflections.

Green Creek.
Irises abound in the meadow at the beginning of the road. The road is a long winding dirt ordeal. Lovely and dusty. The best part is pretty much every vehicle I passed was some sort of large truck and there I am with my little bitty car. Nice.

Evidence of the beavers hard at work along the creek.

The road to my camp site...great...

Hiking up Green Creek to Green Lake.

And there's the lake...

There was a super sweet waterfall across the lake too but apparently that picture is M.I.A. at the moment. I'll have to add it later.

I attempted to continue on the trail up to East Lake but I ran into the snow line, lost the trail and after a couple precarious creek crossings decided maybe I should give up before something bad happened.

A few more iris pictures on the way out...