Rickey Cabin
The place
Rickey Cabin in the Toiyabe National Forest, Bridgeport/Twin Lakes sector (Mono County, eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA), at 2516 m elevation, on the Sawtooth Ridge 3630 m slope. Continuous USA Sierra Nevada cluster (batches 240-353). Historic cabin from the gold and silver mining era, Silver Lode Nevada 1859 Comstock Mother Lode 300 M oz of silver, Barbary Coast San Francisco 1849 gold rush 300,000 Chinese arrivals through Angel Island transit, zone with Pinus lambertiana sugar pine, the largest cones in the world + Sequoiadendron giganteum giant sequoia California coastal 8000 examples up to 100 m 4000 years old the oldest in the world + Pinus longaeva bristlecone pine 5000 years old, Prometheus cut down in 1964, once the oldest individual tree in the world, Great Basin, heritage of the Washoe (Hokan people 3000, Nevada reservation, Washoe language rare 20 speakers, UNESCO CR CE Lake Tahoe Da'aw sacred).
The setting
Toiyabe NF Bridgeport/Twin Lakes Mono eastern Sierra Nevada CA USA 2516 m Sawtooth Ridge 3630 m, continuous cluster batches 240-353, gold/silver mining Comstock 1859 Mother Lode 300 M oz silver Barbary Coast SF 1849 300,000 Chinese Angel Island, Pinus lambertiana sugar pine 60 cm largest cones in the world + Sequoiadendron giganteum coastal CA 100 m 4000 years + Pinus longaeva bristlecone 5000 years Prometheus cut down 1964 once the oldest, Washoe Hokan 3000 Washoe rare 20 speakers UNESCO CR Lake Tahoe Da'aw sacred.
