We got totally lucky with this call. Had we gone to South Lake Tahoe, we would have been caught up the middle of the mandatory evacuation mess that occurred due to the Caldor fire. Who knows how long it would have taken for us to get out in all the crazy traffic? I would rather be chilling in my lawn chair, looking at Mammoth Mountain and the Inyo National Forest, which is not burning.
We got to celebrate our anniversary in Mammoth California. We headed up to Mammoth Ski Resort and road the gondola to the top. The views from the top were breathtaking, a nice way to spend our anniversary. For our anniversary dinner, we considered heading to the Mammoth Brewery, but we decided to just have a nice quiet dinner in the coach.
On the way back from our gondola adventure we stumbled across the Mammoth Earthquake Fault. Geologists believe this feature was not caused by a single earthquake, but was rather a system of fractures formed by a series of strong earthquakes in the Inyo Craters and Inyo Domes centuries ago. It was a short hike, but an impressive reward.
The Woman had discovered that the PCT ran right though Mammoth, however, the only access points were within Devils Postpile National Monument. We had been here long ago with the kids, but since we had been there before, the implanted a shuttle system that we weren’t interested in using. Being turned away at the entrance station, we were pretty bummed out.
However, a local suggested that the entrance station wasn’t manned until 7 AM. So, we headed out early and managed to find the two areas within the Monument where the PCT was accessible. The Woman had some unexpected energy, and we managed to take on over 6 miles of the Trail we had never done before. All in all, it was a great revisit of the Monument.
Talk to you soon.
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