Gravity takes a swipe at Lundy Canyon
March 19th, 2011 by Bartshé, Education Director
Sometime during the night of March 15, during another Sierra winter storm, a large rock broke loose from the northern ridge above Lundy Canyon. The van-sized boulder tumbled down hundreds of feet before it found a new home along the southern shoulder of the Lundy Road. Jeffrey pines were the only witnesses to, and victims of, the boulder’s kinetic journey. The local Mono County/Lee Vining road crew discovered the chunk of granite the morning of March 16 as they returned to plow the road. The rock fall occurred along a stretch of road containing several day-use areas, about a half-mile below the Lundy Canyon campground. The accelerated expansion of the universe excepted, gravity always gets its way.
New, temporary addition to the Lundy Canyon Road.
More than just snow falls in Lundy Canyon. Notice small dent in road.
Bowling for Jeffreys. There must be a dead squirrel around here somewhere!
