Sep 11 We drove out to Mammoth Lakes Basin Area today. The drive from Bishop took us about 1 hour. The elevation in this area is about 8900. The fresh, crisp mountain air and beautiful scenery was really, really awesome. Twin Lakes was our first stop. Absolutely breathtaking...
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| Twin Lakes |
There were some people fishing using floaties. Kind of strange. They wear waders underneath and paddle around with their legs.
Continued on to see Horseshoe Lake, drove around Lake Mary and then parked by Lake Mamie. It was good timing because while we were there, a truck stopped and started planting trout in the lake. We've never seen this before, the guy climbed on the back of his truck with a big scoop net and started scooping fish from a big tank on the back of his truck.
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| Horseshoe Lake |
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| Lake Mary |
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| Lake Mamie |
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| Planting trout in the lake |
We were at the top of Twin Lake Falls overlooking Twin Lakes, such a beautiful site.
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| Waterfall in background |
We took a drive to Upper Twin Lakes to see the waterfall from the ground. We discovered there's a campground there and found that there were sites that our motorhome would fit in. That's good because I wouldn't mind spending some time here. There's also a nice walking/bike path that goes around the whole area. Lots of people around getting some exercise.
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| First wildlife sighting |
Our next stop was Convict Lake. So we drove out of Mammoth down to Hwy 395 and traveled for about 1/2 hour. Another beautiful lake. We did a hike around the lake, about 3 miles. The elevation here is about 7850 and we got pretty winded hiking but we just took our time and enjoyed the scenery.
Our last stop for the day was finding this hot springs that I read about. It's out in the boonies but pretty popular so a lot of people go there. Well, we found it but it was very small. There was another couple already in the tub...butt naked....so we didn't want to get in with them. There was another one in the area but Joe had enough. I was kind of tired too, maybe we'll try again tomorrow.
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