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....is over but not forgotten! We had the best time. It was so fun meeting Sharon and Evie. Brown's Town RV park and campground had beautiful views of the mountains and the weather was perfect for exploring those mountains.

Evie and Sharon arrived before me and were all set up; with mine our rigs were lined up like the three bears.



At the top of our list was a visit to the Bristle Cone Pines. We listened to an excellent talk by the Ranger and walked the Discovery Trail. Next time we will do the 4 mile loop to see the really old trees. This one was probably only in the 2 -3,000 year range!



We did learn from the Ranger that some of the wood on the ground was close to 11,000 years old.



The Bristlecone Forest is located 24 miles east on highway 168 from Big Pine. On the way back to Bishop we stopped at the bottom of the grade to wade in the Owens River.



Another day we headed west into the mountains. It was happy serendipity to discover Lake Sabrina. A friendly woman took our picture on the dam for you all.



The highest mountains still have snow. We had a cup of coffee with these beautiful views.





There are three large lakes along Bishop Creek in this basin. Sharon drove her intrepid Jeep up a very steep and narrow road to North lake. It's a bit smaller than Sabrina and surrounded by these mountains of the most amazing colors.



We stopped several times along Bishop Creek to check out campgrounds, enjoy the crystal clear water and wildflowers. Evie waved at me through a grove of Aspen trees.



Days exploring the mountains called for a soak in the hot springs. Keough's Hot Springs was build in 1918. The water comes out of the springs at 110 degrees so is cooled by the spray of water at the end of the pool.



Thursday morning we were all a bit sad to be breaking camp, but a final treat was waiting just south of Big Pine....a herd of elk....



It was pure pleasure meeting Evie and Sharon, here's looking forward to next year!

Looks like yall had fun! I bet that creek sure did feel good on hot feet. Thanks for sharing the gtg with us!

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Wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing with us.

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Great pics,... and narrative. Thanks so much for posting them!

Diane, thanks for sharing your gtg with us. Great pictures and good narrative, I feel as if I was there.

Thanks Diana for posting the trip report! I sized my pictures but photobucket wouldn't recognize my password and then wouldn't let me reset to a new one. Grrrr!! Then I was gone Friday thru Monday, so will try again today sometime to get some photos up. Wonderful trip and we're planning on trying to make this an annual one, we didn't see nearly all there is to see there. Bishop of all places....who would've thunk it??

Thanks for the pictures and narrative, especially loved the trees. Wish I could have been there.

So PB finally recognized me and using the old password! We had such a grand time and got along famously for 3 such diverse ladies! We ate, which I was a little worried about since we had 1 vegan (Diana), 1 salt restricted (Evie) and a garbage disposal (me), but it all worked out great. We had a dinner at Jacks which was awesome and a dinner at the local Indian Casino which was good. Evie and Diana managed to loose their stash and I came out 10 or 15 dollars ahead. The other 2 dinners we just brought stuff out and shared what looked interesting to us.The Bristle Cone pine trees were top on our list to see:

Road up to the top



Our Ranger..she looked and talked just like Rosie O'Donnel and was a hoot. If it hadn't been for her, we would never have known to look at the trees on the ground, those being the oldest in the forest.



Post of what to look for



Old tree



Loved the twisty wood on this tree



Pretty flowers



Some of the pines are a combination of 2 species, this one had purple cones





Diana by a really old tree



Trail down the mountain



Waterfall on way down from Lake Sabrina



We went to Mammoth one day and found this beautiful view of the mountains on 395



And had lunch at Schots in Mammoth, Diana's treat. Great bread!



This just covers some of what we saw and it was all just gorgeous, although Mammoth was a bust, the drive there was great and we checked out a couple of campgrounds, and stopped at Tom's Place just to see what was there. I just can't resist a road I haven't been up and even was able to put the jeep in 4 wheel drive to go up a road. Diana and I were grinning like schoolkids and poor Evie was holding on with both hands...we did sort of put her through the wringer...but she's a good egg and put up with our shenanigans!

Great pic of the three of you beautiful ladies! And what fun you had! Thanks for sharing about the trees. Isn't it amazing what we just pass by if there's no one to inform us about them? Very interesting, indeed.

Looks like you gals had a great time. We were just there in June and your pics brought back great memories. Thanks for sharing. carold

Maybe I can make it for next year if you do it again.

Diana, BTW I like your short hair cut, it looks cute on you. At first I was like okay, who's who, so I went back up and looked at your avatar and at your face and knew it was you.

Looks like you gals had a grand time....and I like the hair cut, too....

So sorry I couldn't make it this go round, but God willing and the creek don't dry up any more, I'll be there with bells on next year. Was on Govt trip to Phoneix and actually got out and did some heavy duty sight - seeing, part of which was 4 wheel driving. Will have to tell ya all about it over coffee sometime (hopefully soon). Glad someone else is a shutter bug junkie like me. Great pics. Miss ya.