Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:12:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tent camping in the Mammoth Lakes area
Comments: To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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late one night in Lone Pine.......
I just turned west from downtown .....
drove a few miles up ..............drove a few hundred feet off the road by
some huge boulders.
Spent the night ok in my van.

there's a tiny hot spring called Willy's I think......
it's east of 295, and  a few miles south of the turn off to Hot Creek and
the local small airport.  Maybe 5 miles south of there...........
I remember something about 'third  cattle crossing' ..........then take
small dirt track a couple miles south to small springs in open country.

also ....south of Bridgeport, or on the south part of town, on the east of
295, uphill to the east, in a starting out near homes ........
Travertine hot springs .......last time I was there it was amazingly nice.
it's like 1./3 of a mile from 395.

also, Badger hot springs I think..........north of Bridgeport about 8 mils,
take forest road straight west about 8 miles....
somewhere in there is a parking area, with a hot springs next to the creek
down about a 40 foot embankment.

that help ?
it's a fabulous area !
Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: Tent camping in the Mammoth Lakes area


> ... with three kids and a dog.
>
>
>
> We're considering doing this in the '87 GL (auto). It's a roughly 3-hr
> drive
> and a 5-6000 foot climb. If anyone that has experience with that drive
> (on
> 395) in a Vanagon and/or camping in that area would like to pass on tips,
> tricks, warnings and must-sees (not about the kids and the dog, we have
> that
> covered), I'd appreciate it.
>
>
>
> Cya,
>
> Robert