To the Sierras and Back!

We got back a few days ago from our 8 day camping trip in the Sierras. It was a lot of fun; especially seeing Brooke and Carl and having Mike and Jess join us for a couple of days.
We have traveled the 395 hwy. for decades between southern CA and Reno but haven't really spent the time to go off towards a lot of the camping areas. Now we're getting down to business!
Our first two nights were at Twin Lakes campground, 10 miles off the 395 at Bridgeport. This was a last minute reservation and it turned out to be our favorite spot of the trip. We had an awesome site right on Robinson Creek and we could walk just a short distance to one of the lakes. Next time we have to get a fishing license. People were just standing on the shore reeling em in!
Then we went to a private campground on June Lake. It's only redeeming feature was full hookups. Carl helped us a lot to learn how to make things work on the motorhome. By the end we were taking hot showers in our miniature bathroom!
The private campground had trailers packed in so tight it was amazing. It took some people 15 min. to manuever their units into the spots! Why do people want to cram into little "camping towns" like that??
From this campground Brooke took me on a hike that was supposed to end at a lake in the Ansel Adams wilderness. At about 2 miles we were supposed to come to the lake but after 2.5 miles we still weren't there and decided to turn back. It was very pretty any way and I was quite proud of myself for going 5 miles!
Our last campsite was at another area called Twin Lakes but it's at Mammoth. That was very nice. More spread out. Right on two little lakes. There was a big waterfall gushing into one of the lakes. You could hear it all the time. We kayaked on these lakes a bit.
Kobe is a trooper at camping although it was pretty cold at night and he would end up in the sleeping bags with us!
When we got back to Reno we unloaded the camper in 100 degree weather.......shades of Palm Springs! Yuck. It's cooler now thankfully.
I put up some pics of our trip on flickr. If you click on the slideshow to the right it will bring them up.