After a relaxing morning and second cup outside, Pam and John and Dave and I went to check out the Museum of Western Film History. This area, the Alabama Hills and rugged Sierra Nevada, have been the backdrop for more than 400 movies from early silent Westerns to science fiction, and foreign films. It has been the American west, the Arabian desert, Spain and the valleys of the Himalayas. The museum contains memorabilia from many of these movies. Original posters, costumes, props, cars and stagecoaches, saddles, life size figures, and all the ensuing collectibles from our favorite westerns and childhood cowboy idols.
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| Museum's parking lot view! |
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a wooden breastplate worn under costumes to
protect from arrows |
After we finished the museum we walked across the street for an expensive but very filling lunch and headed back to the motorhomes to change clothes and pick up golf clubs.
Mt. Whitney Golf Club is a small 9 hole course on rt. 395 between the Alabama Hills and the Inyo Mountains. The setting is spectacular, the course a bit rough but fun nonetheless.
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| the drive to the club house |
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| the gallery of spectators |
We were the only people on the course, we had the place to ourselves. Dave and John played creative golf by rearranging the order of the holes....anyone can play one first and nine last, right?
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| straight down the fairway |
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it was sunny and warm on the course but
a snow storm was raging up on Mt. Whitney |
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| brown Alabama Hills in front of a stormy Mt. Whitney |
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| on the other side of the course, the Inyo's were bathed in sunshine |
After 9 holes we called it quits. It was getting to be happy hour and we had Erik Schats Bakery's Turkey Pot Pies waiting for dinner at Beluga. Tomorrow is another day - I think ferreting out some arches in the Alabama Hills is on tap!
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| sunset lit clouds over the Inyo Mtns. seen from my bedroom window |
It most certainly was a fun day! Spectacular views on the golf course. What a great photo of Dave close up with the ball in the air and the mountains in the distance!
ReplyDeleteI see snow capped views in your future!
ReplyDeleteGolfing under Mt Whitney - how cool is that!! I would expect nothing less than creative numbering from those two! Looking forward to checking out the museum, the movies are such a great history in this area. See you tomorrow :-)
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