Lone Pine/395 Trip October 2020

Early October is the best time to see the fall colors along the eastern slope of the Sierra so we’ve been wanting to do this trip ever since our last trip in May of 2019 to Lone Pine.  (more…)

395 Trip Part two – Lone Pine

We arrived in Lone Pine on Sunday May 12th.  I had planned to camp at Lone Pine CG however when we got there, a long up hill slog, we found it to be very tight quarters, unlevel pads, cranky camp host and simply did not feel good.  (more…)

395 Trip May 2019

We set out on a two week trip on route 395 on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mtns in early May.  Our destination was Lone Pine with a planned visit to Death Valley.  (more…)

Rt. 395 May 2018 Trip – Convict Lake

After  a couple nights at Silver Lake we moved on to the Mammoth Lakes area.  Did the loop then went a little further south to Crowley lake.  Except for some good boondocking sites on the west side of the freeway, this did not look welcoming at all.  So we went directly to Convict Lake. (more…)

Rt. 395 May 2018 Trip – Silver Lake

Our next stop on our highway 395 journey was the June Lake Loop.  We found Grant lake to be overall scenic but camping wise it was rather unappealing.  We also went to June Lake campground but (more…)