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Hiking Mt. Whitney – Going Home

We packed up the next day, drove to the store at the trailhead and bought an “I Hiked Whitney” t-shirt, and drove to Reno.

One last look at Whitney from the “Alabama Hills” – a pile of rocks where Hollywood shot a bunch of western pictures.

We stopped at Mono lake, which is an alkaline lake with tufas towers – weird rock sculptures.

Adrian examined the brine shrimp in the water.
The more dramatic towers were on the south side of the lake, where we didn’t go.

We arriving at Reno in time to get a shower (finally!) and have dinner with Mark and Sandy, friends from Odyssey. Adrian flew out that evening, and I drove back home the next day.

At the end of the day, as I was driving from Ellensburg on I-90 and heading over the Cascades, I realized that if I were anywhere else in the world, I would have stopped and taken a bunch of pictures of the mountains. They were beautiful and dramatic, and had the clouds wrapped around them. The Pacific Northwest is one of the most beautiful places in the world.