welcome to california i am currently on highway 395 headed up to the eastern sierra i will be
starting a backpacking trip tomorrow i decided to come early season since last year i wasn't
able to get into the backcountry due to all the fires right now there aren't any
fires in the area knock on wood so i will be hopefully getting in a couple of trips
this early season joining me on this first trip will be my friend nicole and i am so stopped
i met up with nicole and bishop after a nice lunch
in town we headed to camp to prep and rest for our upcoming adventure
good morning from the bishop pass trail today we are hiking up to long lake
we have about 1400 feet of elevation gain and i think it's about four and a half miles
we will be setting up base camp there and then tomorrow hopefully hike up over bishop
pass if there's not too much snow cover it is an overcast day which is nice because
there is a heat wave here in this area right now yesterday down a bishop it was over 100 degrees
so right now it feels pretty good it is supposed to be very windy later
so we want to try to get to camp and then find a sheltered area and make sure that we're guide
down and tied down with our tents really well it's supposed to be over 40 mile per hour gusts
anyhow it feels so good to be back in the sierra i am absolutely stoked it is beautiful
i didn't get to get into the backcountry last year so yeah i'm really happy as you might
imagine
so
john muir once said going to the mountains is going home i concur mr muir
do
it is a beautiful day on the trails however the elevations really not getting to me
we camped at uh elevation i think it was probably about 8 000 feet or maybe even more
so i'm happy that we were able to acclimate at least one night
got into town yesterday so it doesn't seem to be any trouble right now there's something
magical about the sierra that i just can't explain you need to be here to experience it
so
i think we're going to call this camp for the night it's a great spot i actually
camped here back in 2016. we have a little bit of shelter from the wind with some trees around us
the wind has not kicked up yet thankfully um it wasn't supposed to start until this
afternoon so we have time to get our tent set up and yeah it's a beautiful spot no sun
right now it's completely overcast but it's supposed to be sunny for the next couple of days
still beautiful still very happy to be in the sierra
after setting up camp this felt like
home
the beatles song here comes the sun is in my head i lay down in my tent for a little rest
and all of a sudden looked out and the sun was shining there was blue sky
it's absolutely beautiful i only wish that when we got our first views of the lake
the sun would have been out but i'll take what i can get
so happy so happy to be here
so i have that one
and you have the pocket rocket too uh-huh
for the original pocket rocket come on mac and cheese uh-huh come on rice
looks not too different from where we are check this out
that must be it i think it says that's long lake
so it's a quite chilly and breezy morning for breakfast this morning it is uh bacon jerky
oatmeal and of course coffee
what do we got there um maple oatmeal and i had some brownie cake earlier
oh wow maple oatmeal and brownie cake okay and some nice warm coffee yeah that's a that's a must
after breakfast we packed our day packs and headed towards bishop pass
because of the incredibly strong winds we opted not to climb the pass
we weren't disappointed however as we had experienced indescribable beauty
along the way it is the journey after all not the destination
you