Monache Meadows

"Monache Meadows"

Monache Meadows
[Photographer unknown]

At the South Fork Kern River are Monache/ Beck Meadows, peaceful, flower studded meadows with bears grazing at dawn and dusk. Olancha Peak graces the vast meadows. It's a perfect place for an early season backpack when the High Sierra is still under snow.

All photos are courtsey of Donna Reynolds unless otherwise noted.
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Bob White and William (Bill) Carrasco in Monache Meadows

Joni Carrasco writes:

I wanted to help you out with the info on your site. The cowboy in this picture with Bob White is my father William (Bill) Carrasco. He is part of the Gill family who also show up in a 1951 picture of the Monache Rodeo. He an Bob White discovered a lost propeller from a ship in Owen's Lake, some time in the 1950's. Bill Carrasco was born in 1920 and worked for many of the pack stations in Lone Pine, up to the 1960's. He was also a stunt man and livestock contractor for many of the movies filmed in the Alabama Hills from 1938 on. The last movie he work on was Silverado in 1984-1985.

December 2013

Cowboy rodeo at Monache Meadows - 1920

Duane Rossi: The Monache Rodeo

L to R: Wilson Thomas, Wendell Gill, Pete Olivas, Freddie Simpson, Leaky Olivas, Clesar Girand, Roy (Gabe) Gill, Pete Garner, Buddy Garner
Owens Valley Cowboys - 1951

Ray,

Shortly after this photo was taken, Wendell Gill went to work for Disneyland when it opened, driving the covered wagons. He then left and went to work for Knotts Berry Farm and drove the stagecoaches until he retired. Love looking through all these old pic and seeing family again.

Leilaune Holtz
March 2016z

10/25

Carl Norton and Cactus Mack in Monache Meadow.
They could be men that helped when Carmen, Leaky, Peter and my Grandfather were building the cabin in Monache.
(Photo courtesy of Leilaune Holtz)

"Monache Tour ... 1925"
By Rena Beth Moore

07/26

Photos and Text Courtesy of Greg Meade

The reopening of Monache airstrip after being closed by Inyo National Forest for decades. That day 13 airplanes landed on the historic airstrip, mostly Recreational Aviation Foundation members who pused it through over 13 years of effort. All these pilots worked hard to reopen an iconic airstrip. Greg Meade is 4th from the left, Anthony Longobardo is 6th, and Rick Lach is 8th.

This is a picture that I (Greg Meade) got from a pilot that was cleaning out a hangar in Santa Paula (or Ynez) that shows the Monache Air Camp in the background. It was 1952. The same year my Grandmother, Kazia, built her cabin one mile to the west. Kazia was a gourmet cook that Bob White hired for the summer to feed the guests that Bob flew in. The guests pictured look like they brought their own plane in.

This is a fun pictue of The Great Horse and Motorcycle Race that cowboy Danny Torres and motorcycle rider Greg Meade had in the early 1970's. The start was in front of our newly completed upper cabin on Kazia Lankowska's property in Monache Meadows.

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