We spent a week camping in Inyo County to explore the eastern Sierra and the ancient bristlecone pines.

Specimens of inyoite were displayed at the mineralogy exhibit, admired for their glassy, colorless crystals.

I flew into Inyokern for the air show and was surprised by the quiet desert sky.

Strange inyoites washed ashore after the storm, their patterned shells unlike anything the researchers had seen before.