My first snowcamp! And an introduction to mass gym sleepage... it's a rite of passage i suppose. That's Gary Shoenhals in the red in the foreground. Mammoth Lakes HS, CA save file: small medium large | The trailhead, the busses just left us. Every year the bus drivers take off for a hotel and hot tub- and we paid them to drop us off here? Inyo Craters Rd @37.681850, -118.994894 save file: small medium large | I'm not sure why these people have hiking sticks on groomed snow but whatever... Inyo Craters RD save file: small medium large | Here's the group making an igloo... +/- 1/4 mile from 37.683090, -119.003091, CA save file: small medium large | Group huddling to keep warm and make dinner. SE of Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA save file: small medium large | Jackson Wan cooking and eating breakfast from his tent. I think this was my first trip with him, his office is just a couple down from mine now (2008). SE of Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA save file: small medium large | Post clean up and ice structure demolishment we had a few moments to kill so we proceeded to whap each other with subzero water particles. SE of Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA save file: small medium large | Dayhike to kill some more time where we found some fresh bear prints. Deer Mountain-ish, Mammoth, CA save file: small medium large | WBC outing, leader Sandy Sanders and Arleen Tavernier. Odd thing is that Sandy would die exactly 9 years from this picture, and on the day i post this picture. RIP Sandy, we'll miss you : ( Mammoth Lakes, CA save file: small medium large | Hiking out we can see there's about 3-4 ft of snow here. Mammoth Lakes, CA save file: small medium large | So with 100-150 people going camping in the same spot year after year it would get all stinky if we just 'did' it right there. So we have to bag it up and carry it out for disposal. That's what assistants are btw. Here we are getting rid of the poo at the treatment center. Mammoth Lakes, CA save file: small medium large | Random picture of the 395 in Owen's Valley. CA-309 southbound, Owens Valley, CA save file: small medium large |