Lone Pine - Tuttle Creek Campground

Finding a camp site here that was level was challenging so we stopped looking for one and made do with probably the best one. Its #42. It just so happens its deep and backs up to the creek. Usually its just the touch of a button but sometimes leveling the RV takes all kinds of calculations. Although the RV jacks were long enough to level the RV I didn't want the rear wheels up in the air unsupported. So I just raised the jack a little bit higher and added blocks to support the wheels & tires and then let it back down till it was level.

On our way to the campground Kathy snaps a shot of Nightmare Rock without even knowing it. This is one of the things that she wanted to find in her quest to find stuff that's weird in each town. The Oddities. Check out Roadsideamerica.com

Snake !!!

Mount Whitney restaurant & the club sandwich. This sandwich was awesome. They give you a choice between turkey and ham, ask them for both.

You have to open your mouth like an anaconda. We actually split it and barely ate it.

Thank you Danyelle for turning us on to this restaurant.

A drive worth taking is to the top of Whitney portal Road you will see a waterfall.

Apparently this is only a trickle.

We heard that in the summer there is so much water coming down that you can't hear yourself talk.

Lone Pine is rich with scenery and history. Check out this link.

They've made so many movies here its really incredible. Here's a list. Click on this link.

Cerro Gordo Ghost town.

It's a 7.5 mile drive up a winding gravel road.

I think we were the only ones up there.

We got the full tour from our tour ghost.

To learn more about this ghost town, check out this link.

I think we learned a little bit about dry camping. We already knew we can go more than 7 days on a 100 gallons of water and we did that. It was the electrical aspect and knowing what you could and couldn't use. This is an all electric coach with 8 AGM batteries. No propane and no solar.

Knowing how long the batteries needed to go without charging and how long they needed to charge became very important.

The settings on the charger unit were set wrong. After setting the charger up for the right kind of batteries and elevating the charging rate from 80 to 90 percent we could run the batteries down from 2.9 all the way to 2.1.

Then just pick a time to start the generator and run it for 2 hours to recover.

Generally I do this about 8am and 5pm.

The problem arises in the morning when I want to make my coffee without draining or damaging the batteries after watching TV at night and keeping the full size refrigerator and inverter going.

My point is I want coffee and I don't want to turn the generator on at 6 or 7am, even though I can legally do that.

So we bought one of these.

Aint it cool!

That's old school Yosemite style percolator coffee maker and a Coleman propane stove.

Let the neighbors sleep, right?

Kathy and I took Mouse down to the stream on a long leash. She sniffed around and all the sudden we watched her walk across the shallow part of the stream to the other side.
In this shot she hopped right into the deeper part of the stream.

The Mobius Arch Loop Trailhead. This is a nice trail.

If you like arches, you can't miss this one.

That would be Mount Whitney right in the center.

After the hike we scouted for future places to park in the Alabama Hills.
Kathy did a little off roading.
I goated her into it.

I told her what she needed to do and then I got out of the Jeep and took pictures of her doing it. She was pretty happy.

Review - This is a great campground. No hookups. Your spread out and everybody here is very respectful. They do have a dump station and water near the front entrance of the campground. We got Verizon 4G here. There's so much to do here, we will be back in this area someday.

Today we get ready for another move.
Tomorrow we start heading back down south.