Travel, Landscape, & Night Photography Meetup Group

Let’s find some snowy landscapes to photograph in the Eastern Sierras. Specific locations will depend on road and weather conditions and determined closer to the date. Owen’s river valley is most likely a must

It will be super cold. Bring lots of warm layers, gloves, hats, hand warmers, thermal base layers, water resistant/snow boots, etc. Bishop has a high of 55 and a low of 23 degrees in January. It will be 10-20 degrees colder at higher elevations, especially in the morning.

Sunrise is at 7:06am and sunset is at 5:03pm. I may be inclined to do star trails if I’m not frozen.

I’ll be staying at the Bishop Inn.

Event may be cancelled last minute if weather is not permitting or any other reason.

By voluntarily participating in this event you agree to release and discharge in advance Lacey Horner, and any other organizers or event hosts, from any and all liability. This liability waiver includes but is not limited to illness, injury, death, damage, and loss to yourself, your guests, or any of your personal property. You are responsible for your own safety and assume all risks that may result from participating in this event.

Update:

Park is open sunrise to sunset. After sunset activity is limited to campground areas. I’m not sure how strict they are about this but I really want to do night photography at elephant arch.

Entrance fee is $15/car for non-NV plates. Pets are allowed. Drones are not allowed. There most likely won’t be cell service. Bring walkie talkies if you have them. Also please download offline maps.
There is Ino food inside the park, but there’s a few restaurants in Moapa valley if we are inclined to leave the park and drive an hour round trip.

I don’t see anymore campsites available. If you don’t have a site booked yet please let me know and I’ll see if anyone is able to share. With that said and because it’s a holiday weekend I’m expecting it to be crowded. The photo spots below are very popular.
Tentative plan subject to change:

Saturday- set up camp. Then Elephant arch for sunset, blue hour, and night. Moonrise is at 8:30 pm so we should have 2 hours for night photos unless rangers kick us out. This is a .3 mile hike from the parking area.

Sunday morning - Mouse’s tank road sunrise

Sunday golden hour/sunset at fire wave. This is a 1.5 mile round trip hike partly in sand.

Monday morning - optional sunrise shoot depending on weather.

There are only 5 campsites available in Valley of Fire as of 11/25 7:30pm. It was $55 total per vehicle. Please do not RSVP until you book your campsite or have other lodging planned, and book ASAP. Please check their cancellation policy.

Atlatl Campground has bathrooms with flushing toilets and showers.

Sunrise is at 6:25am and sunset is at 5:19pm. I’ll be shooting both.

It will be upper 30s at night, very cold to camp in. I plan on sleeping in my car.

There will be a little hiking involved. The fire wave is 1.5 miles round trip. Other photo spots don’t involve much hiking.

We’ll meet at the campground. Time is TBD.

Event may be cancelled last minute if weather is not permitting or any other reason.

By voluntarily participating in this event you agree to release and discharge in advance Lacey Horner, and any other organizers or event hosts, from any and all liability. This liability waiver includes but is not limited to illness, injury, death, damage, and loss to yourself, your guests, or any of your personal property. You are responsible for your own safety and assume all risks that may result from participating in this event.

We’re doing it again to chase more snow and this time moonset. Sunrise is at 7:04am, moonset is 7:16am, and sunset is 7:00pm.

Specific locations will depend on road and weather conditions and determined closer to the date. Owen’s river valley is likely with a possibility of June Lake and we cant forget Mount Whitney

It will be super cold. Bring lots of warm layers, gloves, hats, hand warmers, thermal base layers, water resistant/snow boots, snow pants, etc. It will be 10-20 degrees colder at higher elevations, especially in the morning.

Event may be cancelled last minute if weather is not permitting or any other reason.

By voluntarily participating in this event you agree to release and discharge in advance Lacey Horner, and any other organizers or event hosts, from any and all liability. This liability waiver includes but is not limited to illness, injury, death, damage, and loss to yourself, your guests, or any of your personal property. You are responsible for your own safety and assume all risks that may result from participating in this event.

Monday the 26th is Memorial Day.

Friday day 1:
Drive to Alabama Hills. Lone pine hotels book up very fast. Please reserve a room if you are staying in a hotel asap. I recommend booking a fully refundable room just incase.

I’ll be shooting cyclops arch probably. We’ll meet at the parking area by 6:30pm. It’s a short 10 minute walk to the arch. I have a LED panel to light up the inside of the arch.

Saturday day 2:
Optional sunrise in Alabama Hills or somewhere, followed by breakfast. Then head to Bristlecone fairly early to explore before night photos.

Sunday day 3:
Drive to Trona Pinnacles. We’ll check into the hotel first. Then, we’ll meet at Fish Rocks CA-178 in Trona at 6:00pm. We will probably lose cell service after this spot. I don’t have exact coordinates but I’ll be shooting from a hill before turning left to go to the main parking lot. It’s about a 20 minute drive from fish rocks to shooting location.

Monday day 4:
Optional sunrise and hotel breakfast. Then head home.

I’ll be staying at the best western plus frontier motel in Lone Pine for Friday & Saturday nights. Then Sunday night I booked the Days Inn by Wyndham Ridgecrest.

I recommend downloading offline maps of all areas because cell service will be limited. I will create a group text a few days before to provide any further details.

Sunset is at 7:55 and Milky Way core is visible starting at 9:50.

4 wheel drive vehicle is recommended but not required at both locations.

Event may be cancelled last minute if weather is not permitting or any other unforeseen circumstance.

By voluntarily participating in this event you agree to release and discharge in advance Lacey Horner, and any other organizers or event hosts, from any and all liability. This liability waiver includes but is not limited to illness, injury, death, damage, and loss to yourself, your guests, or any of your personal property. You are responsible for your own safety and assume all risks that may result from participating in this event.