Pacific Crest Trail - Day 32 - Zero in Big Bear, CA

5! lanes of highway through town. The only people we saw walking anywhere were PCT hikers.

Trucks used to be so much cooler. Toyota pickups - for regime changes on a budget.

Waiting on laundry at the park by the lake. That’s my fancy town shirt.

Murray‘s was exactly the dive bar with killer food we were looking for.

Big Bear is a ski town. It’s hilarious in a completely not-hilarious way how ski towns jack up housing prices to the point that the people who actually make the town function can’t afford to live there, then implement rules like this. See also: San Francisco, Boston.

Minimalist self-portrait.

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We stayed at the Sierra Blue Suites and had the run of the place. I’m not even sure we saw an employee in two days. $85 a night - shoulder season price. Would recommend.

If the walls at the Pine Cone Cabaret could talk…

Wolf pencil art, woven wall hangings, soft warm Himalayan salt lamps, low volume house music. It’s called ambiance, ever heard of it?