Labor Day Weekend White Mountain Peak, Ancient Bristle Cone Pines, Beer

@theed

So Heidi (the van) is broken in Utah. Johann (Heidi's owner) is getting her towed to bishop. I'm gonna meet Johann in Bishop tomorrow morning. He's gonna throw a bunch of stuff in my truck and I'm gonna head back up the mountain. What this means for us-not much other than I might be late to the rendezvous point at the start of wan canyon road. However, I doubt I'll be late. I'll know for sure tomorrow before you guys get to Bishop.

 

Gotcha. If you're still in Bishop close to 13:00, text/post and we can meet down there. Otherwise, I'll see you up top.

 

On my way down to Bishop.

 

Left Bishop at 0858 this morning got in to Ptown at 1658
How did this turn out?
I was up top Silver Canyon at 1400 on Sunday....windy AF al night long

 

It went well. We hiked White Mountain Peak on Sunday. Barcroft Station to the Summit and back in 5.5 hours. I camped right near the intersection of Silver Canyon and Wyman Canyon Friday night. We got up there around 10:30. Saturday we went into Bishop to meet up with theed and my friend who's van broke down. Then we headed back up Silver Canyon Road and checked out Patriarch Grove. We had zero wind all weekend. After that we back tracked and camped. Sunday we hiked White Mountain Peak and headed back into town for Frozen Yogurt and then headed to Mammoth hot springs. On the way home we stopped at two hot springs, both super nice.

That's 14er #5 for me and by far the easiest.

I'll post some more picks later this week or this weekend when I have some more time.

 

Awesome trip, thanks for organizing @otis24

I made a thing that kinda tells a story:



Also, a longer shot of the Silver Canyon drive up:



Apologies for any potato quality, these are my first two iMovie abominations creations ever.

 

Nice job! I think you captured the trip really well. The flow and the length were perfect.

 

Bonus footage of more weird shit that happened as @otis24 gets educated about the Ideal Gas Law by his truck: