Mammoth Lakes Adventures Day One

The trip began early Thursday morning with Ryan, Jimmy, Dave and me meeting at Erick's house in Los Angeles. We all arrived around 2 am and quickly loaded our gear into the CR-V. Erick drove most of the way there and we got a couple of hours of sleep on the road. We arrived in Mammoth shortly before sunrise, grabbed a quick breakfast and headed over to the ranger station for the bear canisters (essential in bear country). Next we headed to Mammoth Mountain ski area to park and catch the shuttle to the trial head. Our starting point was Agnew Meadows and at 10 am we started the 10 mile hike to 1,000 Island Lake. The scenery was stunning and the weather couldn't have been better. Lunch was awesome as Erick had bought sandwiches at Panera Bakery and we ate on an overlook to the valley.

We finally arrived at the site around 4pm and my shoulders were killing me. We set up camp and unpacked all of our gear. The rest of the daylight was spent fishing and Ryan and Erick managed to hook some rainbow trout.

It was great to finally get to bed even though we had some uninvited guests throughout the night. We slept as much as we could considering the wild animals and the cold night kept us from sleeping like logs.