What are the chances that we may have a field trip to Bodie next year?
Anything's possible. We did that trip in 2006 and everyone came back with some great pictures.
http://www.lpaphotography.org/Calendar/PastEvents/2006/SepBodieTrip/index.htm
It would just take a trip leader to commit. Sue, Kay and Tylene may qualify since they led the last one and have the experience in dealing with the rangers.
Did you hear that Arley, you would make a great trip leader..
Oh come on now, Arley....it was just a suggestion. I can only imagine the work that goes into planning a trip like that. Is September the best time to go? Well hopefully we will be able to go next year...
Ya know, you might want to check out Ransburg if you're looking for something close by and similar. There's a lot of potential there for that kind of photography. It's an old mining town and is still occupied but there are a lot of abandoned building there. All you would need is a horse and you would be in the twilight zone.
I have a couple other pictures in the Gallery.
http://www.lpaphotography.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=20
Where is Ransburg?
See here. (I spelled it wrong)
click on Randsburg, CA on the left side of the webpage that pops up
http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ITVA_enUS284US284&q=Ransburg%2C%20ca&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl
If you go to the Field trip webpage and download the PDF Map, look at the middle of the page and you will see at least two by stove pipe wells.
Here's the Link
http://www.lpaphotography.org/Calendar/ClubEvents/fieldtrips/031109DeathValley/FieldTripTemplet.html
West of Randsburg is the Rocket Research Society's Mojave Test Area (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rrs.org/main.1.0/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=76">http://www.rrs.org/main.1.0/index.php?o ... &Itemid=76</a><!-- m -->
, the ghost town of Garlock, Burro Schmidt's Tunnel, and many other sites of interest.East of Red Mountain is the modern ghost town of Lockhart with a nearby lake and wildlife sanctuary.
It's truly amazing what's out there.
Garlock is about 15 minutes the other direction from Randsburg and the Rocket site is about 30 minutes from there, though it's hard to know when there will be any activity there. It does look like they're scheduling a launch day for January 24th [url][http://www.rrs.org/main.1.0/index.php?option=com_mmsblog&task=show&id=11/url].
