Back to Bishop

From Tonopah we headed back to Bishop for a couple of days, we’d hoped that Tioga Pass, might be open but it was still closed due to snow, but we did return to Lake Sabrina now snow and ice free where we enjoyed coffee and hot apple cider.   I took away a piece of chocolate brownie which was truly scrumptious!

The road to the much higher South Lake was now open, so we drove up only to be greeted by our final wall of snow.

While we were there we met a chappie who was walking the whole length of the Pacific Crest Trail, starting in Mexico in April.   At the beginning of June he had made it to the Sierra Nevada where his progress had slowed because of the deep snow.   Instead of 25 miles a day he was now doing 15, we thought that 15 miles a day in deep snow was a pretty good speed.

We asked if it was safe to be up in the high Sierra’s on your own with all the snow he said it had been fine, but now the snow was starting to thaw it was unsafe so he’d come off the trail for a few days to stock up and was now going to meet up with some other hikers and they’d continue through the Sierra snowfields together.

South Lake, still mostly frozen, in the clear mountain air you could hear the ice cracking.

We had a coffee stop at this beautiful meadow on our way back from South Lake.

Have fun, we are!