Drive to Bishop

After checking the weather forecast, and ensuring that there was no snow in the forecast (in order to avoid a Road trip like this) , we headed out on I80 for the eastern Sierra. The skies were blue and the air was quite cold, and the drive down 395 was beautiful, as usual. We stopped near mammoth to try out my Ozone Frenzy kite and snowkiting in general for the first time. There wasn't very much wind to play with, but after a lot of effort by Chloe, we managed to get the kite up in the air and I trudged about a foot under the power of the wind. The rest of the time was spent on my ass or knees.


It was really frustrating to see the miles and miles of perfect snowkiting terrain -- treeless rolling hills as far as the eye could see -- with not a patch of snow on them. Oh well. there wasn't very much wind anyway.

From Mammoth, we headed down to Bishop and the Happy boulders, where we climbed a few things on the Savannah boulder, and got shut down on some west rim pocket problems. We headed to the hotel around twenty minutes after the sun went behind the Sierra and it started getting cold. We had dinner at our favorite mexican place in town, headed back to the hotel and fell asleep early.