Creek Running North

hehehehe, you do of course realize just how many Deadman Creek’s there are in the western US.  There is one down south of here about a half hour drive, that flows into Hangman’s Creek.  Alas i do believe that the one in the picture is most likely that hidden gem, up near Glass Creek by Obsidian Dome, the upper headwater creeks of the Owens River????  Red fir trees with that distinctive smell in the fall, and shards of obsidian scattered about down where the two creeks merge.  Not so far from Deadman Summit either.

If it’s the place I think it is (and it looks like it) it’s also got white-headed woodpeckers, with their strange skullish-looking faces.

I once picked up a fire-ring rock there and, on impules, threw it down onto another rock to break it. The anonymous rough gray cobble split into a yin-yang of shining curve-faceted obsidian.

And yeah, spyder, that scent there. Mmmmm.

It is the Owens River headwaters one, but those are Jeffrey pines.

Hey, *I* was dog hiking at Deadman more than once back in 1994. And who was my guide? Carl Buell.

Chris, we must have passed on the road more than once in the years I lived in Mammoth and Bishop, from 1974 to 1996.

White-headed woodpeckers, obsidian, and the sweet smell of Jeffries, oh my. First time I noticed the smell of a Jeffrey, I was on a horse, and six feet away, and it still caught my attention.