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Various selection of pictures from 1999 in WBC 1999 Snowcamp. Click on pictures for medium view. Right-click/save to save and/or view different resolutions.

   My first snowcamp! And an introduction to mass gym sleepage... it's a rite of passage i suppose. That's Gary Shoenhals in the red in the foreground.
Mammoth Lakes HS, CA

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   The trailhead, the busses just left us. Every year the bus drivers take off for a hotel and hot tub- and we paid them to drop us off here?
Inyo Craters Rd @37.681850, -118.994894

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   I'm not sure why these people have hiking sticks on groomed snow but whatever...
Inyo Craters RD

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   Here's the group making an igloo...
+/- 1/4 mile from 37.683090, -119.003091, CA

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   Group huddling to keep warm and make dinner.
SE of Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA

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   Jackson Wan cooking and eating breakfast from his tent. I think this was my first trip with him, his office is just a couple down from mine now (2008).
SE of Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA

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   Post clean up and ice structure demolishment we had a few moments to kill so we proceeded to whap each other with subzero water particles.
SE of Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA

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   Dayhike to kill some more time where we found some fresh bear prints.
Deer Mountain-ish, Mammoth, CA

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   WBC outing, leader Sandy Sanders and Arleen Tavernier. Odd thing is that Sandy would die exactly 9 years from this picture, and on the day i post this picture. RIP Sandy, we'll miss you : (
Mammoth Lakes, CA

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   Hiking out we can see there's about 3-4 ft of snow here.
Mammoth Lakes, CA

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   So with 100-150 people going camping in the same spot year after year it would get all stinky if we just 'did' it right there. So we have to bag it up and carry it out for disposal. That's what assistants are btw. Here we are getting rid of the poo at the treatment center.
Mammoth Lakes, CA

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   Random picture of the 395 in Owen's Valley.
CA-309 southbound, Owens Valley, CA

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