So this here is my first post to Epic Vistas. Yesterday I found out that Newsom is buying a new motorcycle. I am incredibly excited for him. Earlier he posted about our epic week long, thousand mile Eastern Sierras trip. I'm gonna append his original post with a few more pics.
Day three. We managed to escape night two in a frozen alpine meadow somewhere in Sequoia National Forest, where we had slept in a small cave and kept a fire going all night so we wouldn't die. Eventually we headed up highway 395 towards Bishop. Our goal in Bishop was the famed Bristlecone Pine forest. It was obviously awesome. But before we made it there, we were faced with the ever present problem of miles versus daylight, and we begrudgingly decided to make camp in a totally random spot off the highway, just west of a nowhere town called Lone Pine. Talk about luck. The spot we happened to find that evening stands out in my mind as one the highlights of that trip. It was just too perfect. I finally found it on google maps satellite view, and it's so much bigger than we discovered it to be that night. I can't wait to go back there and climb around again, and camp for a few nights this time.
A thousand miles from nowhere—epic vistas indeed. Click on the snaps to see the vastness of the landscape. In the second photo you can see motorbikes in lower-center-right. And it's a great place to perfect your one-handed rock climbing (since your other hand is holding a big-boy beer). Eastern Sierras über alles.
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