No Room In Yosemite

Silly me thought we could find a spot in one of the first come first served campsites along Tioga Road in Yosemite. Silly me should have known better on a free weekend for National Parks. After our last hopes were dashed at Toulumne Meadows things looked pretty bleak. The thought of turning around and driving back to somewhere in the Central Valley was not very appealing. With nothing left to lose we asked the volunteer ranger at the Toulumne Meadows campsite for some advice. Turned out to be the best advice asked for. He said if it was him, he would drive over to Mammoth and camp at a little spot south of the airport, left at a green church, right on a dirt road after three cattle guards and down a mile or two. Oh and there would be a pretty sweet hot springs with a well marked trail too. Not bad advice. And the view of the Milky Way was amazing!