Campsite

Campsite (Big Trees Campground) - Sierra Nevada  2024

I last camped in this area in 2017.  Then, as now, the drive from Marin County to the campgrounds west of Bishop was quite long and tiring. (And this year I wasn't able to enter Yosemite until noon - a further delay.)

Back in 2017 I found a nice campsite in the Forks Campground. So I drove there first. But this year the campsites were either taken or reserved. Yikes! So I followed my pre-trip plan and drove down to the next campground. This was the Big Trees Campground and . . . I found a fairly pleasant campsite!

But then: registration, setting up of the tent, blowing up the Thermarest, getting out the sleeping bag, loading groceries into the bear box . . . lots to do. The camp host had to help me figure out the tent's rain fly pole; I had forgotten that it had an odd configuration (back to front.)

Photo was taken with the iPhone at 7:30 in the morning, the campground still in shade but the sun hitting the mountains in the distance.