Mammoth Lakes Travel Blogs

Sunday morning and once again beautiful crisp air and not a cloud in the sky. The view from the ski house balcony over looked the village and Lake Crowley, just beautiful! This morning I decided to sit out on the balcony, drink my coffee and play some trance rhythms on my drum, awwwh so awesome! …

we skied a little bit in the morning, but both Kevin and I were not in as good shape today, so we quit early. Snow was great on the mountain, after about 4-5 feet of snow in the last couple of days.we had to go home today or the next storms will keep us here til later in the week. Fun as it was, we…

Well we managed to get several days of fun skiing in over the Christmas break and even got to ski with Portia, Kevin and David as well as have dinner with Eric and everyone which was a blast.  Since it has been dumping snow up there, we are hoping to get up to Mammoth the weekend of January 19…

Na Los Angeles (California) zijn we naar Arizona gereisd via de Mexicaanse grens. Het is een lange trip en onderweg is het erg droog en warm: 35+ graden. Het hoogtepunt van de dag is de vele grote cactussen die langs de weg staan. De volgende dag ging naar Sedona, het begin van de Oak Creek Canyon:…

Having got caught up in rush hour in San Fran we were behind schedule and had to nail it to our next destination. It got dark and suddenly we hit some winding roads and in trying to find full beam I turned off the lights half way up a mountain. Fortunately we could not see how far down it was. Got …

went to mammoth lakes to get some good beer, good food, good fun, and of course a good ride

Dag 19 vrijdag 8-8Om 9.30 uur met de taxi naar de airport. Na een enerverende ochtend (niets ging zoals het moest gaan; ontbijten ging moeilijk, overal van die vieze dingen waar we geen trek in hadden. Het was 8.00 uur en we wilden wat op de vuist. Dan maar het restaurantje in. We wilden gewoon wat…

Messed around, found good campsites, dayhiked, only did 3 days backcountry.

In 4 weeks traveling from Amsterdam to San Francisco, lake Tahoe, Mammoth Lakes, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Bryce Canyon, Sequoia National Park, Yosemite National Park, Monterey & Carmel, San Francisco again and then back to Amsterdam.

I have taken the road trip between Los Angeles and Mammoth Lakes many times, after the most recent trip, I thought maybe I should document it. It's about 320 miles on mostly 4 lane highway in the high desert and Owens Valley. The turnoff into Mammoth Lakes is a short 10 minute drive which often requires snow chains in the winter, but all together an easy drive people do regularly in about 5 hours (6 if you drive the speed limit, which is rare for California.)

This was my first time exploring Mammoth during the summer. I normally ski here at least 6 times a year. Visiting the Postpile and the Falls was so much fun. We did about a five mile hike in order to get to the falls. During the summer day visitors have to take a shuttle into the park and then hike…

Devils postpile is a rock formation or hexagonal columns.  It's pretty interesting to see, but not too exciting.  There is a nice waterfall that I hiked out to and it was a nice stop for that morning before driving home.

LA to San Francisco by , Mojave desert, death valley, mammoth lake, Yosemite NP, Monterey coast and around SF.

We acclimated at Tuolumne Meadows for 2 days and then went out on a week long backpacking trip from there to Mammoth Lakes. (The map below is wrong, I meant Mammoth Lakes but apparently theres a Mammoth elsewhere. I'm just too lazy to type the word "Lakes.")

This was the route of my first West Pac aboard the USS Acadia AD-42 it was one of the greatest times in my life. I got to see almost the entire Orient.