4 April 2011 to 7 April 2011 On the morning we left, I told the motel desk-clerk that we were going to drive through Yosemite Park to Saratoga, California. She shook her head. "Oh no, the park isn't open until June or July." June or July??? You must be kidding! No, she wasn't kidding. The park service doesn't plow the snow, so it sometimes takes to July to melt. Okay, on to plan-2. Do we drive down south to Barstow, California or up to Reno, Nevada to get where we are going. Those ARE the only two choices.... We decided to drive north...and that went up, up, UP! Into the White Mountains of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I've learned the tree-code for mountains now. At lower elevations, the first trees to appear are Pinyon Pine and
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