Today started like any other day and we all
loaded into the car after another odd breakfast and this time we were heading
to the mountains and Mammoth Lakes. Now in advance I knew this would be the
coldest part of the holiday and I came prepared I had my body warmer! Having
watched the news however we knew there was the chance of snow higher up.
Our first stop was Yosemite National Park,
we stopped at a small visitor centre on the road in and thank god we did. We
were chatting to the lovely man about what we could see in the park and as we
were wrapping the conversation up made a passing comment that we were going to
Mammoth Lakes, his response was No you’re not. On enquiring we found that the
one and only straight across road was shut due to heavy snow so we couldn’t get
to where we wanted to go. Some other roads were open but only with a 4x4 with
snow tyres on all corners and chains. We had neither!
He explained our only choice was to travel
down and round the mountain range and back up about 450 miles altogether we had
already done about 200 that day getting from San Francisco! Looking at each
other we knew we had no choice so we hit the road dad doing the first 200 miles
then I did 3 hours and then dad finished the drive off. Lots of amazing sights
along the way including the Sunmaid raisin factory! However given the choice we
would have still opted for the 150 miles straight across!
Now very tired after 13 hours In the car we
arrived at a snowy Mammoth Lakes, it was freezing! We didn’t have dinner and
went straight to bed!
Pumpkin patch along the way
Sunset over the mountains
In the snow!
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