Lone Indian

This tree is in the Reds Meadows Campground. I couldn't resist taking a
couple of pictures. I don't know what kind of animal it looks like, but the sun
came out just right to make a branch look like the white of its eye, and the
pose with it's raised tail looked like it is about to get down to business. We
had arrived here with Jeff, Teri and I driving from Orem Utah, through Las
Vegas, and Death Valley to get here. Mapquest's suggestion. What a bad
choice that was. The road through death Valley was nicely paved, and we

drove at night, so it wasn't so
hot, but the directions we got
didn't say the 120 miles or so
were on a 35 mile per hour roller
coaster road. We got our
permits in Lone Pine, caught the
shuttle to Mammoth, where we
got a rental car so we could pick
up Tom from the Reno airport.
We set up camp, then Jeff got
his dad Tom, while Teri and I
enjoyed some daddy daughter
time, and also visited the hot
showers.
In 2006 we had hiked from Reds
to Chief Lake by way of Duck
Creek. We decided to take a
different path to get to Chief
Lake in 2007. We chose Fish
Creek and had originally
planned to go through Cascade
Valley, but decided later to take
the Minnow Creek trail. This led
us through 5 miles of burnt out
forest, but wasn't too bad until
the drop off to the Fish Creek
Bridge. I was glad that we were
going down that instead of up. It
was big rocks and steep.