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BISHOP, Calif. — Just after dawn on Thursday, I pointed my car up a long, steep hill outside Bishop and climbed through the high desert scrub toward the towering peaks of the Eastern Sierra. For about ...

Strapping on snow shoes and slinging on hefty backpacks across their shoulders, CSUN students venture through the snow laden mountains of the Eastern Sierras. After hiking about two miles up from Rock ...

Northern Nevada and the Eastern Sierra are experiencing an above-normal snowpack as the new year begins, with levels ranging from 109% of the median in the Walker Basin and Eastern Nevada to 164% in ...

After a late start to the fall foliage season, if you want to experience the brilliance of the Eastern Sierra's fall colors, you should drive up to the mountains in the next 10 days. The foliage is ...

To the editor: I appreciate the praise that your article on the scarcity of housing in the sparsely populated Eastern Sierra gives to this amazing, pristine part of California. But I am bewildered by ...

The past month of mild temperatures and no intense storms in the Sierra has made fall foliage expert John Poimiroo very happy. "We haven't had a high wind; we've had a very mild autumn," noted ...