HOT SHOTS EXHIBIT CHRONICLES TREK THROUGH MOUNTAINS AND DESERT.Byline: - Daily News LANCASTER - Desert wilderness photos by adventurers Lee Bergthold and Christine Bowers Bowers is a surname, and may refer to
``The Trek Continues - Photography by Lee Bergthold and Christine Bowers'' will showcase photographs taken during the trek that Bergthold, Bowers and companion Al Caler made in 1997, hiking from Battle Mountain in north-central Nevada to the northern boundary of Death Valley. The photos depict an area Bergthold calls California's last frontier - uninhabited desert rarely crossed by man. An Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. instructor, Bergthold is a backcountry back·coun·try n. A sparsely inhabited rural region. photographer with more than 40 years' experience exploring deserts and mountains. Bowers is one of his students. A free public reception will take place from noon to 4 p.m. today at the Museum/Art Gallery, 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . Bergthold will give a lecture on his trek and photos at 2 p.m. Admission is free to the museum, which is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. The gallery will open for a late program from 4 to 7 p.m. July 13. For more information, call (661) 723-6250. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) Photography instructor Lee Bergthold, right, and student Christine Bowers look at some of the pictures they took of their hike from northern Nevada to the Death Valley, on display today at the Lancaster Museum Art Gallery. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer (2 -- color in AV edition only) ``Tina melts snow for water,'' by backcountry photographer Lee Bergthold, is on display at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery. (3) During a cross-country hike, Christine Bowers took this photo of ``Lee at Bristol Dry Lake Bristol Dry Lake is located south and southeast of Amboy, California in the United States. Salt evaporators are located on the lake bed just east of Amboy Road. The lake is found in the Cadiz Valley south of the Bristol Mountains. .'' |
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