Motel 6 Mammoth Lakes

... rijden kwart over tien het park uit en hebben dan ruim 160 km door het park gereden. Dan is het nog 230 km naar Mammoth Lakes waar we een motel gereserveerd hebben. We komen daar rond enen aan en halen de auto helemaal leeg. De kamer is best wel klein dus ...

Wow - Mammoth Lakes was soo cool. They had soo much snow the night before we got there soo heaps of fresh powder for skiing. We were snowed in for the morning and turned around before reached Hwy 395 due to snow and wind. So we went back to 'Angels' ...

... in de grond geslagen zodat men straks weet waar de straat is zodra er een dik pak sneeuw ligt. Bij het binnen rijden van Mammoth Lakes was het meest opvallend dat het er ERG rustig was. Rustiger dan zo'n plaats zou doen vermoeden...nee, dit wordt ...

... cream, hash brown, sausages, bacon and scrambled eggs too. We're writing this next day in Stellar Brew coffee shop in Mammoth Lakes - a beautiful beautiful place full of food and arts enthusiasts. Very expensive to live here - if we sold our house in ...

... soon! J We got on the road for California around 11am, ready to put in a solid day of driving so we could get to Mammoth Lakes comfortably in daylight. As we left Las Vegas, the sun was searing into the van and a thermometer check revealed that it was 31 ...

... , so Amanda took him in to the local hospital.  (If you do have an accident, you can't do any better than Mammoth Lakes Hospital emergency department - it's small, newly modernised and staffed with nurses and doctors who talk to you intelligently and ...

... at 14,505 feet and after WWII was almost renamed Mount Winston Churchill.     The trip from Lone Pine to Mammoth Lakes was mercifully short (only two hours). Yet again, we didn't know what to expect - I've toured the West of California ...

Wow, yet another perfect day. Leaving Las Vegas (hey, that would make a good movie title) about 9 this morning, it was already mid-70's and rising. We pushed north on a very long valley road, with mountains on both sides. US 95 goes all the way to ...

... geen last van beren gehad en hebben als een roosje geslapen, beide. We pakken de spullen en pakken in. We hebben hier in het Motel 6 geen ontbijt, maar dat maakt niet uit. Als we ingepakt hebben rijden we richting Mono Lake en Bodie. Het is nog geen uur ...

...   Death Valley Left Vegas in the morning, long day of driving - bout 10 hours through Death Valley, stopping the night at Mammoth Lakes. Death Valley was amazing - temps hit 113F (45 celcius) at the lowest points (below sea level). A very dry ...

... den Süden in Richtung Lone Pine, unseres heutigen Tageszieles, gefahren. Mittendrin hab ich beschlossen, einen Abstecher zu den Mammoth Lakes zu machen, die in meinem Reiseführer als sehr schön beschrieben wurden. Leider fandes wir nur das ...

The travelling duo checked out of the Swiss Chalet at 9.30 am and set off from their 3 day hibernation in Mammoth Lakes and waist deep snow, heading north on route 395. I keep on calling it the 365 which is, I think, an easy mistake ...

... seen in the internet that the Sonora pass was open, but now saw signs that it was closed, by this stage we were well up towards mammoth lakes on the 395 so to late to turn round and go the long south route to Yosemite. So the plan turned out to be ...

Due to the long drive from Yosemite to Death Valley, we had an overnight stop in mammoth Lakes. This was good for two reasons - firstly, it was a lot cooler and gave us respite from high outside temperatures and inside air conditioning and secondly, ...

... early, it wasn't long before we began to be buffeted by the winds that became stronger as we moved north.  Passing the Mammoth Lakes area groves of aspen formed rivers of color down the mountainsides.           Intermittent ...

So after a few days in Yosemite, we had to start making tracks to see more of the area. Driving south past Mammoth Lakes (awesome snowboarding in winter...) we stopped off at an overpass in a place called Owens Valley, and in front of us the scenery and ...

... is drier and warmer than the south end.  Downside was that fresh water was not flowing across the terraces at Mammoth Springs, reducing the color show.  Beaver Ponds hike was enjoyable and according to hikers behind us we missed a black bear ...

... ; It was the first national park in the world, and you can see why. It comprises of many different landscapes including lakes, canyons, waterfalls, thermal areas and contains many different species of animal; making it a park you need many days to ...

... hot springs there was buffalo everywhere. This was a area called Hayden Valley.  We saw some amazing waterfalls, lakes and mountain ranges.  Mammoth springs was very interesting with how the hot springs formed all the rock formations. By far I ...