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Hot Creek Geological Site

Posted on | October 27, 2008 | 6 Comments

Hot Creek Geological Site, Long Valley Caldera, California Hot Creek Geological Site, Long Valley Caldera, California

Wading in Hot Creek is currently off-limits to tourists due to the unstable nature of the geothermal activity here. I took the trail down there but you can’t even stand along the banks of the creek anymore so I went back up to the parking area and pulled out my telephoto lens. I liked how primal this landscape looks. Reminds me of the thermal pools from Yellowstone National Park.

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Category: California, Eastern Sierra, Mammoth Lakes
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6 Responses to “Hot Creek Geological Site”

  1. Dennis
    October 27th, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

    Ya it does remminder of some yellowstone pools

  2. John W. Wall
    October 27th, 2008 @ 4:16 pm

    Cool shot. I’d never even heard of the place.

  3. Richard Wong
    October 27th, 2008 @ 11:56 pm

    Thanks guys. This is near Mammoth Lakes.

  4. Ron Niebrugge
    October 28th, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

    That is really interesting – I haven’t heard of it either, but it does look like Yellowstone. Can you go there in the winter?

    Ron

  5. Richard Wong
    October 28th, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

    Thanks Ron. You have to drive about five miles down the dirt road and they do not plow it in the winter as far as I know. I haven’t been to the Eastern Sierra in the winter but I would imagine that everything at 7,000 feet elevation would be under snow for much of the season.

  6. T and S
    October 30th, 2008 @ 8:26 pm

    Richard : That’s a beautiful landscape shot with a telephoto lens.

    Have a nice weekend…Thomas

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