Heading to the Eastern Sierra for a six day backpack.

My friend Robin and I are going up Piute Pass tomorrow. The pass is pictured above. On a training hike, Monday at Nisene Marks State Park, we talked with a bike rider and discovered he was from Bishop. That’s where we’re heading to hike. It’s 190 miles away from Nisene, and there he was. We asked about shuttle buses between the trail’s end and the trailhead a distance of seven miles. He volunteered to drive us if we bought his daughter’s first book which was published just before the pandemic.

Now we plan to see him tomorrow at his house. He’ll follow our car with his to the trail’s end where we’ll leave our car. Then, he’ll drive us to the trailhead. Our car will be waiting for us at the end of our journey. How sweet is that? His daughter’s audiobook is on my phone to be be read to us while we drive.