A mountain eye candy post.
Rock Creek Lake is in NW Inyo County, WNW of Bishop, at about 2970m (9750ft). There are both cabins and campgrounds nearby. What a fantastic place to stay for a little High Sierra hiking. Megan and I spent seven nights at one of the cabins. She had been here before. It was my first time.
The drive from SoCal took about eight hours with our longest stop at the Eastern California Museum in Independence where we learned about Norman Clyde and saw a set of homemade dentures made from coyote teeth. They also have a good collection of Native American baskets. There’s no store up at Rock Creek so we bought a week’s worth of groceries in Bishop.
The rest of this post is really just photos of High Sierra lakes in August. Here’s Megan walking by Rock Creek Lake at the start of our first hike to Tamarack and Buck lakes on the other side of the ridge.
