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Hiking Rock Creek
        
      
     
    
    
    
    
    
      
       
        
          
One of many lakes along the way
        
      
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
      
       
        
          
Dark shadows from the clouds
        
      
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
      
       
        
          
Mammoth Mountain, brown and bare for the summer
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Arriving in the Ghost Town of Bodie
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
An old house
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Outhouse
        
      
     
    
    
      
       
        
          
Peering inside a prison cell
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
The Old Stamp Mill, where they "stamped" large chunks of rock in order to extract precious minerals such as gold
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Prison exterior
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
The vault, which is the only part of the bank that is still intact
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Inside the vault
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
An oven door, perhaps?
        
      
     
    
    
      
       
        
          
Fire hose nozzles
        
      
     
    
    
      
       
        
          
Inside the church
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Church pews and heater
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Sitting on the church steps
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Overlooking Bodie
        
      
     
    
    
      
       
        
          
Driving back to Mammoth from Bodie
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
Cathedral Peak, during our hike to the base
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
We climbed the side facing the camera
        
      
     
    
    
      
       
        
          
Sometime during the first few hours, with a view of Cathedral Lakes in the background
        
      
     
    
    
    
      
       
        
          
At the top, and Half Dome is on the left in the distance
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
My climbing shoe
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
View of the valley below, with the shadow of Cathedral Peak
        
      
     
    
      
       
        
          
View of Cathedral Lakes from the top