If you are feeling a bit confused as to what events and places belong to what days then join the club. I have not done well with keeping a journal and managing photos and videos so its all befuddled.
So, on the day we spent time at the mountian lake in S. California we also went to Mammoth Lake. Mammoth Lake is a privately owned place, so everything cost and everything was commercialized. Once there we had to park the RV and take a shuttle up to the trial heads that lead to various scenic points. Some of those points included the "Devil's Post Pile", Minnerat falls, and Rainbow Falls. Coming off the shuttle bus we began to walk toward the Devil's Post Pile but took a small detour toward the "soda springs" (they ended up to be nothing). The trail continued up, but I didn't have the strength to keep going so Mom and I decided to stop and rest while everyone else headed up the trail to see what was there. Well, after what seemed to be an eternity of waiting we came to the conclusion that wherever that trail's destination was, it was not just around the corner. Turns out they were all headed up to the Minnerat falls which were a little more than a mile away. Of course the whole time they thought that it must be just up ahead so they kept going. It took forever!
It must have been worth the hike because Dad, Anni, Ryan, and Steven all came back with excited faces and fun stories of the waterfalls that they got to climb on. Next, we hiked to the Devil's Post Pile which is a natural rock formation that looked liked perfectly straight carved posts.
Then we hiked the two and a half mile up hill hike to the Rainbow falls. We decided they measured the distance of the walk as the crow flies because it had to be more than 2 1/2 miles. The falls weren't even that spectacular, but we got our exercise for the day.
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