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On The Road – ?BillinGlendaleCA – Glaciers!

by WaterGirl|  February 9, 20225:00 am| 24 Comments

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?BillinGlendaleCA

If you head about a four hour drive north of Los Angeles, you can find yourself looking across a canyon at a glacier. I decided for my last stop on my Fall Color Tour 2021 that I’d take the road west from Big Pine to Glacier Lodge and take in the fall color for one last time. The bonus with heading up to Glacier Lodge is that with a bit of hiking you can get a pretty good view of the southern most glacier in the United States, Middle Palisade Glacier.

I initially parked near Glacier Lodge and took some shots using the trout pond next to Big Pine Creek as a foreground for the fall color surrounding the pond with the Sierra and the glaciers in the background. I drove back down the road to Big Pine and stopped at the parking lot for hikers spending the night in the Big Pine lakes basin. I hiked a bit up the north fork trail to get a better view of the glaciers.

I am planning to return to Big Pine Creek and make the hike up to the lakes this year. I’d like to see it in the late Spring when the flowers make their appearance and again in the Fall for fall color.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

Fall color and the Sierra reflected in the Glacier Lodge trout pond. Yes, the white stuff in the tree’s shadow along the pond is snow.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

Shot of the trout pond in infrared.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

Shot of the trout pond using the Aerochrome emulation filter. While the regular IR filter really doesn’t show the fall color at all, you do get some using the Aerochrome emulation.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

Fall color in the canyon of the South Fork of Big Pine Creek with the glaciers above the canyon.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

A closer view of the glaciers with the fall color along the South Fork of Big Pine Creek at the bottom of the shot.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

As the trail turns up the north fork canyon, you get a full view of Middle Palisade Glacier.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

IRChrome(AeroChrome emulation filter) of the Middle Palisade Glacier.

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Big Pine, CAOctober 15, 2021

As I headed down the hill to the confluence of the North and South forks of Big Pine Creek, I took one last shot of Middle Palisade glacier before it was obscured from view by the foreground mountains.

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24Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    February 9, 2022 at 5:31 am

    California is pretty.

    There was a chance I was going to move there but it looks like that won’t work out.

  2. 2.

    Spanky

    February 9, 2022 at 5:44 am

    @Baud: Huh! Well, if there’s one state that’s pants-optional …

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    February 9, 2022 at 6:04 am

    Nice shots, Bill.

  4. 4.

    Dan B

    February 9, 2022 at 6:15 am

    We’re you using a polarizing filter?  The sky is very dark, similar to what I get when using  polarizing filter.

  5. 5.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 6:16 am

    @Baud: California has some of the most varied landscapes that you can find.  Mountains, desert, rolling hills, wild coastline…

    @Spanky: It depends on what part of the state you’re in.

    @OzarkHillbilly: Thanks OH.  It’s really pretty country up there and hard not to get a good shot.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 9, 2022 at 6:20 am

    @Baud:

    California is pretty. 

    Yeah, but that view is wasted on the trout.

  7. 7.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 6:20 am

    @Dan B: I don’t think I did that day, but I do use one.  The IR shot, I didn’t, just the IR filters.  The sky is naturally darker with IR shots.  I think with the last shot, I cheated a bit and replaced the sky with a gradient taken from the original sky since the Sun was really making the sky to the upper left too bright

    ETA: I had a really nice polarizing filter that I lost on the trip up there the week before, I’m still upset about losing that filter, it was really good and expensive.  It was one of the filters that attach with magnets, I took it off for some night shots and apparently dropped it.

  8. 8.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 6:22 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Yeah, but that view is wasted on the trout.

    They know what they did.

  9. 9.

    Dan B

    February 9, 2022 at 6:24 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks.  I couldn’t tell if it was altitude but it seems as though you were less than 5000 feet.  Low humidity and a very clear day

    Washington has a similar variety of terrain but your deserts are really deserts!

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    February 9, 2022 at 6:31 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: And what did they do to deserve such an awesome view?

    Being the premier slapping fish is worth that reward?

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 6:32 am

    @Dan B: The altitude at the trailhead is about 7,600 feet.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 6:34 am

    @mrmoshpotato: If you want to see a view, Google ‘Big Pine Second Lake’.  That’s my destination for a spring and fall hike.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    February 9, 2022 at 6:56 am

    They’re all beautiful but the first and the last are major swoon for me.

  14. 14.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 7:07 am

    @MomSense: It was a Fall Color trip, but there’s more of that!

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    prostratedragon

    February 9, 2022 at 7:13 am

    Bill, do you know whether the foreground in the last photo is regrowing from a fire a while back?

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 7:19 am

    @prostratedragon: I don’t think that area has burned recently.

    ETA: There was a lightning caused fire up in the area last year, only 41 acres and was further to the north.

  17. 17.

    Kevin

    February 9, 2022 at 8:25 am

    Really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

  18. 18.

    prostratedragon

    February 9, 2022 at 8:45 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  Ah, thanks. Was wondering because the trees were so small and sparse but there was plenty of growth in general.

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    Grumpy Old Railroader

    February 9, 2022 at 9:44 am

    Thanks for the reminder that California has it all. Glaciers! Who knew? Desert. Mountains. Forests. Go to Lake Tahoe in May and take both your snow skis and water skis. Highest point in contiguous U.S. 60 miles from lowest point in North America. Redwoods. Beaches. Volcanoes. Geysers. Farmlands. Wetlands. Drylands. Marshes. The Great Central Valley.

    Also wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, Liberals and Rednecks

  20. 20.

    Wag

    February 9, 2022 at 10:04 am

    Nice shots!

  21. 21.

    Mike Mundy

    February 9, 2022 at 11:44 am

    There’s some nice campgrounds on the way to the trailhead.

  22. 22.

    way2blue

    February 9, 2022 at 12:36 pm

    Your photos are always so pristine.  Lovely.  Thanks for sharing.

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 2:50 pm

    @Kevin: Glad you like them.

    @prostratedragon: I think it’s more a function of altitude, the trees get smaller the higher you go, especially outside of the canyons with a continuous water source.

    @Grumpy Old Railroader:

    Also wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes, Liberals and Rednecks

    And they say California doesn’t have seasons.

    During Winter in the LA basin you can go to the mountains in the morning and ski, then head to the beach for some afternoon sunning.

  24. 24.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm

    @Wag: Thanks.

    @Mike Mundy: Yup, quite a few folk will camp there to get an early morning start for hiking up the north or south fork trails.

    @way2blue: Thanks much.

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