$5.19 a gallon for gas...
A view of the snow covered Eastern Sierra's in the early morning sunlight....PRICELESS
We had frost on the bike covers this morning when we woke up, with temps in the lower 30's. Our goal today was to ride the passes north of Yosemite National Park, except for Tioga Pass, which is still closed. According to the locals Tioga still has 63' snow drifts on the road up, and they don't anticipate it being open until July.
We headed up highway 395 then turned towards Sonora Pass on 108. This pass just opened on Tuesday, and when we got to the higher altitudes the snow was twice as deep as our heads, on both sides of the road. It almost made me dizzy riding through this white tunnel of snow, but it was an awesome sight. We stopped to play in the snow at one of the few pullouts that had been plowed, so it wasn't all work today like it normally is.
We continued around the loop towards the town of Sonora, then turned back northeast towards Ebberts Pass and Monitor Pass, before heading back south on 395.
We stopped for the night in Bishop, California, only 81 miles from our destination of Olancha.
I'll be here tomorrow night from Lone Pine, California.
Motor (I did curves again) Mike
P.S. And for those that thought my fish from last night ws a fake. I was told that it was the largest CARPet fish they had ever seen.
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