[pct-l] Kearsarge Pass

[Ron]

Doug at the hostel runs a great operation.  I prefer the Dow Villa because a shared room is about $60 or so and in addition to the privacy you have a bit of security.  The history of the place and the ambiance are worth the few additional bucks.
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CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net> wrote:

>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
>
>http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
>
>http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/
>
>
>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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