Me 2007-06-12 Independence
June 12th, 2007Kearsarge Pass has the reputation for being the most scenic part of the high sierra. It really was beautiful with lakes, trees and marmots doing their thing but I passed it all by to get to the trailhead at Onion Valley and hitch to town. I got a ride with a snake spotter. He’s updating his book “Field Studies of Reptiles and Amphibians” and needs to get a photo of a striped californian whiptail. No luck today but it got me to town where Lucky Joe and Tiki had already checked in. We did the usual town things but had to grill our own burgers because the only eatery here is Subway and they simply don’t have enough calories.
I took a look around the impressive building in the middle of it all. “Inyo Covnty Covrt Hovse”, presumably where all the covrting happens. One door was frosted glass and labelled with those bold gold letters you see on old detective movies. I went through it to investigate “Ficticious Business Names”. The lady inside appears to think it is normal to register a genuine business but call it ficticious and thought I was an oddball for questioning this.
More photos of this day’s journey can be found at Crabtree Meadows to Independence
Distance today: 0 miles. Total distance: 788.5 miles