We decided to take a side trail down to Horseshoe Meadows and hitch in to Lone Pine for a day to get clean and fresh after a long stretch of dirty days.
Supposedly an easy spot to get a ride into Lone Pine. Uh....no. Bad info!! The road out of the campground was about 17 miles long before you finally hit a road where you could possibly get a ride. Fortunately, a guy happened by and we loaded into his car for the ride in.
And first stop (after dropping our packs at the Dow Villa Motel where John Wayne stayed while filming westerns around here) was...
Stopped in for appetizer burger and fries, before showering and heading out for our real dinner. Ran into Aly there. A young hiker from Canada. She is bunking in with us tonight. BBQ for REAL dinner And then back to McDonalds for a little dessert. Yep, we were hungry!!
The Dow Villa is in the shadow of Mount Whitney, which we will hopefully get to summit in just a few days, weather permitting.
Since we are finally in a town with phone service and wifi, catching up with friends and family tomorrow and also posting a few random photos from the last few days.
Tents on the river
Sunset on the river (photo cred to Murphy)
Arriving at Kennedy Meadows
Filtering water outside my tent.
Not a lot of places to stash our bear canisters at this spot, so we just placed them about 50 feet away. No bears so far!
Waiting out the hail under a tree a few days ago.
Today as we were leaving the PCT to take Trail Pass down to Horseshoe Meadows we ran in to our first park service ranger who asked for our permits. Had to dig deep in my pack, but we all had them and she also checked to be sure we had bear canisters for proper food storage.
Signing off for the night with clean sheets and two pillows :)
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