At 5:30 a.m. I creaked my way out of the tent to start breaking camp, but noticed that the people at the adjacent site were asleep in the back of their SUV, parked inches from my Subaru, and all their doors were open. I delayed my task and crept around mouselike until, thankfully, they got up half an hour later. It turns out their tent had transformed into a bathtub during yesterday’s downpours, so they […]
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Mountain Drama
Wednesday, June 30 11:30 a.m. I woke up on and off all night, rather uncomfortable, but didn’t emerge from my cocoon until close to 6:00 this morning. In the two years since I last camped, it’s gotten much more painful to rise from the mat, whatwith my twisty old spine. By 8:00 I was on the road, searching for the trailhead for the Curtz Lake to Summit Lake hike, a 1.8-mile loop. I’m out of […]
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 4:00 p.m. Checking my supplies one final time this morning, I determined that I had packed everything I could possibly need. Just for fun, I checked the forecast for the eastern Sierra again, knowing what it would say: hot. So I was quite surprised to see the prediction of a chance of afternoon thunderstorms for both days. I didn’t take it too seriously, its being the dry season and a drought […]
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