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Dustin Mosher and
a rancher chat on
the ramp (below).
Flying over Scotty's
Castle in Death
Valley (right). The
first evening's
dinner-burritos
as big as your head
(far right).
he air is chalk dry and
the heat is intense
for mid-October, but
even though it is only
a stone's throw from
Death Valley, the temperature
in Lone Pine is
thankfully in the 80s.
Lone Pine is the gateway to Mount Whitney
and the Alabama Hills. It's also a favorite spot
for the film industry-movies like Gladiator, Iron
Man, and The Lone Ranger were filmed here-and
is home to the Museum of Western Film History.
The old Tunnel Air Camp Hangar at Lone
Pine Airport (O26) was once home to a backcountry
training and charter business. Next to the
hangar is a green and white house-turned-terminal
building. Volunteers are checking visitors in
for the third annual Lone Pine Backcountry Fly
In. They are collecting tie-down fees, and the
ramp is almost full. Pilots hang out in the shadow
of the terminal.
Fly-in organizer Dustin Mosher waves from
across the ramp and walks over. Mosher is a flight
simulator engineer for Virgin Galactic, and he
lives and breathes aviation. He also plays the fiddle
exceedingly well. It's time for the adventure
to begin, he says-we're going on an ice cream run
to Independence.
" The country where you may have sight and
touch of that which is written lies between the
high Sierras south from Yosemite-east and south
over a very great assemblage of broken ranges
beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the
Mojave Desert. " -Mary Hunter Austin, The
Land of Little Rain
We hop into Mosher's Cessna 120 and, with
a group of seven airplanes, head north. The
flight to Independence (2O7) is just a few minutes,
and the ramp at the sleepy airport looks
dressed up with its row of colorful guests.
The Eastern Sierra Ice Cream Company's
creatively named flavors (Second Summer,
Winter is Coming) are homemade. Mosher
assures us first-timers can't go wrong, and he's
right. Belly full after a scoop of honey lavender
and lemon blueberry, I walk back to the fleet.
Mosher has extensive knowledge of just about
every airstrip that has ever existed in the state,
and on the way south he points out the site of
one of the darkest times in U.S. history: the
Manzanar War Relocation Center, where more
than 10,000 individuals of Japanese descent
were interned during World War II. There's
hardly anything there now, and without him
pointing it out, we'd miss the few buildings
across Highway 395 from the old runway.
We're nearing sunset but loathe to land,
so Mosher takes us on a weaving tour of the
Alabama Hills before conceding to the turning
Earth and landing before dark.
To get ready for the next day's big event-the
fly-outs-we go to the terminal for briefings on
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