Most people head to the beach for the weekend. Others prefer to avoid the crowds at the beach and wander to the mts. I headed up to one of my many secret spots, about 5 hours from San Diego. An area overlooked by most but it is beautiful and not very crowded since the millions of people prefer the big parks like Yosemite, Tahoe and so on. In this area you feel like John Wayne might ride outta the woods and people actually like flatbed pickups and stuff. It’s summer you gotta head to the mts at least once, right?
On the way up a country road – cows branded by aliens?
While spots like Yosemite have crowded campsites, we just pulled off the road and had a site to ourselves, next to a stream, meadow and swimming hole no less
Here is the swimming hole which was nice and clear with trout before the dog stirred up the mud on the bottom
The nearby meadow, a 5 minute walk from our site with no people. Actually you could camp right on this meadow if you chose to do so
Aw – flowers for hippies
Bill Clinton spoke in front of this tree in 2000 creating Sequoia National Monument. George Bush Jr. immediately tried to repeal but failed, like George Bush Jr. has failed at pretty much anything in the past 8 years. Sorry about the photo of me but someone had to be in the photos so you can see how big the trees were
These trees are massive and up to 2500 years old, they have to be seen to be believed
Dogs first camping trip with the turned food and water bowl, of course she ate every piece of poop, bone and stick she came across. She did not know what to make of all the animals either
Kern River Valley from Dome Rock with fires in the background
The Needles, Lonnie Kauk would love that stuff. There is a fire lookout tower on top that has been struck by lightning 41 times in the past 20 years
Still some snow at 9115 feet
Looking east towards Olancha Peak, which if you are familiar with the drive to Mammoth, Olancha peak is outside Olancha on the 395, where the Crystal Geyser water company is
Maggie Peak and the Middle Fork of the Tule River and it’s rough terrain
The peaks of way southern Sequoia National Park, or Mineral King
Jordan Peak Fire Lookout. Someone sits in there all day and night and watches for fires. She was nice, let us up and showed us around
Actually, that is Frazier Mt and Mt Pinos way off in the distance
A short hike took us to one of prettiest spots ever, with no people
A very large tree
Another large tree. In like 1992 George Bush Sr. put this area aside from logging – Freeman creek Grove
The sickest picnic/camp spot you could hope to find, surrounded by giant trees
A fire pit in a tree
If you were so inclined the inside of this tree would be a great spot to spend a night and eat mushrooms and get all Hunter S. Thompson/Carlos Castaneda
Small ski area
Hi tech
Two double chairs and a pony tow
The perfect place to shred if don’t have $86 dollars for Mammoth
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