Pacific Crest Trail - Day: -3
The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me. - Mary Hunter Austin
Start: Bridgeport, CA
End: San Diego, CA
Miles: 0
Bridgeport, CA
Mono Lake, CA
Mono Lake is a stunning inland salt water lake immediately north of Lee Vining.
Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is guarded by mountains two thousand feet higher, whose summits are always clothed in clouds. This solemn, silent, sailless sea—this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth—is little graced with the picturesque. - Mark Twain, [Roughing It, Chapter 38] (https://www.monobasinresearch.org/historical/twain.php)
Lee Vining, CA
Mammoth Lakes, CA
Bishop, CA
Independence, CA
Mary Hunter Austin author of Land of Little Rain (1903) lived in Independence, CA through the California Water Wars.
Manzanar
Lone Pine, CA
