[pct-l] Kearsarge Pass

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon,


When I was last through Lone Pine I stayed at the Whitney Portal Hostel
http://www.yelp.com/biz/whitney-portal-hostel-lone-pine

With four in a bunk room the cost was something like $16-$18 each.  It was
clean, neat, and had clothes washers, etc.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:39 PM, <chiefcowboy at verizon.net> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I couldn't agree more.  Lone Pine is a great place to zero and resupply
> and it's an easy hitch.  The Dow is a great place to stay with clean and
> reasonably priced rooms, a SPA, fresh coffee at all times and an
> accommodating staff.
>
> Also, if you zero, it's worth it to go to the Film Museum and catch
> Manzanar on the way back to the trailhead.  Both are done real well and
> represent a lot of our history.
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Scott Williams
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:04 PM
> To: CHUCK CHELIN
> Cc: PCT-L
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Kearsarge Pass
>
> It was easy getting from Onion Valley to Lone Pine and there is good
> resupply there.  Also there's the Dow Villa or the Hiker Hostel and a great
> Chinese carousel restaurant, pizza and a great breakfast at the Alabama
> Hills.  It's a fun place to spend a zero for a few good museums and the
> National Park's tour of Manzanar, the Japanese internment camp, one of the
> most moving National Parks experiences I've ever had.  Powerful!  And then
> there's all those hikers converging on the town before hitting the Sierras,
> or getting out for resupply.  I hadn't seen Smiles, a Swiss mountaineer,
> since KO, and we made the reconnect.  She became an important and fun part
> of our High Sierra Snow Team.  It's a good stop after doing Forester, and a
> fun town.
>
> Shroomer
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