What is this...Day 4?

Ok, so we started out leaving Mammoth, with the intention of driving to Vegas. We stopped in Bishop for lunch, and figured we'd stop at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest too; after all it's on the way. The Ancient Bristlecone Pines are the oldest recorded living things.I was surprised once we were inside the park how desert like it was. There were really cool rock formations.I love the way trees can grow out of rocks. Isn't it crazy, trees can grow out of rocks and I can't keep anything alive?

This is a picture of a pinecone skeleton. Pretty cool huh! At this point it had starting raining on us. Notice the rain drops on the rocks...So we hop in the car and drive up to the big trees. By the time we reach 9,000 feet it was SNOWING on us. Wait a second, isn't this June? Yep, and 29 degrees. I was wearing carpi's and Jeff was wearing shorts.

Here's where you'd get out to go to the big trees. We made it there and it was snowing BIG time. Jeff took a look at the sign and it was a 4.5 mile loop to get to them. Needless to say, you won't be seeing any pictures of the big trees.

We sure had fun - and what an adventure driving down the side of the mountain with little visibility (and no guardrails). Needless to say, we never made it to Vegas. It took us 3.5 hours to get through the park, so we turned around and went back to Bishop for the night. So here we are this morning, with no idea of where we'll go next. Who wants to guess where tomorrow will find us?

Hugs,

Aub