Recreation Events around the Eastside
Saturday March 20, 2010
Volunteer Project in the Alabama Hills - Lone Pine
HOSTED BY THE ALABAMA HILLS STEWARDSHIP GROUP
AND THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
- 10:00 am Meet at the corner of Movie and Whitney Portal Roads
- We will be restoring a disturbed area and lining an access trail in the Corridors area.
- Tools, Refreshments, and Prizes will be provided by the BLM
- For more information contact Dave Kirk at 760 920-1412
Saturday, May 1,2010
Wild Wild West Marathon
50K, 10 Mile & 3 Mile Fun Run
A trail race that goes through the great Alabama Hills and the foothills of Mt. Whitney. Water stops every three miles. There is a 50K, a marathon, a ten mile and a 3 mile race. Something for every runner and the trail is walker friendly. If you want clean air safe surroundings and beautiful scenery, if you and your family would like to enjoy a day of running or you want to run a challenging race this is the place to be the first Saturday of every May.
Organized by: Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce
Contact: 760-876-4444
2010 Entry Formor Register on Active.com
Past Tents, a traveling exhibit about “The Way We Camped” from the Gold Rush to the mid 1900s, can be seen at the Eastern California Museum in Independence from
. This free, ongoing exhibit shows how people camped from Death Valley to Yosemite by using 50 historical photographs and other artifacts from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley and other California museums. The Museum is located at 155 N. Grant Street, in Independence, and is open from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on weekends and weekdays. For more information, call (760) 878-0258, www.inyocounty.us/ecmuseum.