Lone Pine - Alabama Hills State Recreation Area (BLM)

 STUNNING

That's the best single word I can use to describe it. We arrived late afternoon on April 30th at Alabama Hills State Recreation Area. It is on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, due east of Mount Whitney, which is the highest summit in the contiguous United States. We were off Hwy 395 and just outside of Lone Pine CA. We are "boondocking" (sometimes called dry camping or dispersed camping) on BLM Lands, which simply means you find a suitable spot off the road and camp. We ended up here on the recommendation of a nice couple we met at El Capitan state beach.

One of the best parts of this whole deal is you can "camp" or in our case "glamp" (a mixture of glamour and camping probably coined by a shivering cold and grumpy person who spent the night sleeping on the ground) for free!

So, here we are, surrounded by spectacular scenery, with acres and acres to ourselves and its all FREE?! WHATADEAL!!

The landscape here is amazing, since the 1920's over 100 movies and television shows have been filmed here, older movies like Hopalong Cassidy, Gunga Din and TV shows like the Lone Ranger and Bonanza. More recent movies like Star Trek Generations and Ironman were shot here.

Here is our house and yard for a few days.

Just after sunrise on our first full day...both decided to wear fur to keep warm.

We went for a hike up to a rock formation known as Mobius Arch

After a long hike, it's time to put the feet up and do some serious pondering

Breakfast on our last day... pretty much your standard cowboy breakfast - eggs benedict and mochas. Yep, we're out there roughing it, just like the cowboys of the old west!

Tom and his faithful sidekick doing some advance scouting