Summer - Day 37-40
Thursday, June 7, 2007
So yeah. I've been planning this trip for a few months. Finally came around, although we tried to convince more people to go at the last minute in order to split the costs more ways, but to no avail. Anyway, Bri and I left at around 4:30am to pick up Kwang and Daniel from their places, and we were on our way. Seemed like we stoped every 10 miles to fill up at a Shell Gas Station (Grandma's orders) but the drive up was fun. The 395 is always full of thrills like driving on to the wrong side of the road to pass up slow traffic. Got to Mammoth around 11:30 and got our poles in the water just as fast. Convict Lake was our first spot. Daniel caught his first fish there. Congrats. Went to our condo to drop our stuff off. That place was seriously frozen in time in the wrong decade, but whatever. A place is a place. Chicken Patties for lunch haha. Next stop Lake Mamie. Damn it was freakin' cold there. Smart me said to fish over in the shade where it was about 30 degrees colder than in the sun. Yeah, bad decision.
Wee Hours of the morning
I really like this photo. It reminds me of a default photo you find on computers.
Somewhere between LA and Mammoth
Ditto
Trying to be Artsy
Silly Daniel
Waterfall
Friday, June 8, 2007
Another day of fishing. Got up around 6:30. Pretty surprised that Kwang and Daniel were able to get up that early. Hit Silver Lake first. Probably the most terrible lake I've been to. The lake had no fish, and there were boats everywhere. So we trekked to Saddlebag Lake, the highest car accessible lake in California at over 10,000 feet. I think the altitude up there makes the fish really horny since they were all dropping skeet and eggs when we pulled them out of the water. Also seemed like the water level was about 15 feet below normal, but we caught more fish there in the first 10 minutes than the entire previous day. Vons for lunch again. Made the trip to the "Gorge" to catch some Crappies. In addition to the numerous trout we caught there, we were also out to get other fish and we did. Probably pulled in about 30 of them, kept about 20. The rest were catapulted back into the water. After returning back to the condo, Daniel and I tried our best to clean the Crappies but with no success. Those damn fish are so resilient, still flopping around in the sink. Daniel tried to knock them out with a coffee mug but that didn't work. Some of the fish fell down the sink but we couldn't get them back up because the fins acted like barbs so we just tried to grind them up with the garbage disposal...that didn't work too well either.
Saddlebag Lake, still with snow
Finding Nemo
Tree growing on the side of a cliff
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Fishing licenses expired by today so we went for a 10-mile mountain bike ride. Fun stuff. Pretty chill day. Kwang's 20th birthday so we baked him some brownies. Happy Birthday dude.
Mountain Biking
Monday, June 10, 2007
Last day. Left around noon, and had Ice Cream for breakfast, jacked some spoons, took the extra eggs with us and had some fun with those :). Some people got eggs on their lawn, some got some in their mail box, and a few rolled down the hills. Stopped at Manzanar for a few hours to check out the museum they had their and to get a tour. A very well put together museum in my opinion. Great place to reflect. Finally reached LA, spent a few minutes a the beach, hometown buffet, then took Kwang to LAX to catch his flight to Korea.
Me driving
Manzanar
Fun...with Eggs!
A very fun week for me, and I hope Kwang, BriAnna, and Daniel all had fun too. One thing I will not enjoy about quarter system is how late they get out. So next year I may not be able to do something like this with my best friends. Well I hope that I still do get more opportunities to have some adventures like this in the future.
So yeah. I've been planning this trip for a few months. Finally came around, although we tried to convince more people to go at the last minute in order to split the costs more ways, but to no avail. Anyway, Bri and I left at around 4:30am to pick up Kwang and Daniel from their places, and we were on our way. Seemed like we stoped every 10 miles to fill up at a Shell Gas Station (Grandma's orders) but the drive up was fun. The 395 is always full of thrills like driving on to the wrong side of the road to pass up slow traffic. Got to Mammoth around 11:30 and got our poles in the water just as fast. Convict Lake was our first spot. Daniel caught his first fish there. Congrats. Went to our condo to drop our stuff off. That place was seriously frozen in time in the wrong decade, but whatever. A place is a place. Chicken Patties for lunch haha. Next stop Lake Mamie. Damn it was freakin' cold there. Smart me said to fish over in the shade where it was about 30 degrees colder than in the sun. Yeah, bad decision.
Wee Hours of the morning
I really like this photo. It reminds me of a default photo you find on computers.
Somewhere between LA and Mammoth
Ditto
Trying to be Artsy
Silly Daniel
Waterfall
Friday, June 8, 2007
Another day of fishing. Got up around 6:30. Pretty surprised that Kwang and Daniel were able to get up that early. Hit Silver Lake first. Probably the most terrible lake I've been to. The lake had no fish, and there were boats everywhere. So we trekked to Saddlebag Lake, the highest car accessible lake in California at over 10,000 feet. I think the altitude up there makes the fish really horny since they were all dropping skeet and eggs when we pulled them out of the water. Also seemed like the water level was about 15 feet below normal, but we caught more fish there in the first 10 minutes than the entire previous day. Vons for lunch again. Made the trip to the "Gorge" to catch some Crappies. In addition to the numerous trout we caught there, we were also out to get other fish and we did. Probably pulled in about 30 of them, kept about 20. The rest were catapulted back into the water. After returning back to the condo, Daniel and I tried our best to clean the Crappies but with no success. Those damn fish are so resilient, still flopping around in the sink. Daniel tried to knock them out with a coffee mug but that didn't work. Some of the fish fell down the sink but we couldn't get them back up because the fins acted like barbs so we just tried to grind them up with the garbage disposal...that didn't work too well either.
Saddlebag Lake, still with snow
Finding Nemo
Tree growing on the side of a cliff
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Fishing licenses expired by today so we went for a 10-mile mountain bike ride. Fun stuff. Pretty chill day. Kwang's 20th birthday so we baked him some brownies. Happy Birthday dude.
Mountain Biking
Monday, June 10, 2007
Last day. Left around noon, and had Ice Cream for breakfast, jacked some spoons, took the extra eggs with us and had some fun with those :). Some people got eggs on their lawn, some got some in their mail box, and a few rolled down the hills. Stopped at Manzanar for a few hours to check out the museum they had their and to get a tour. A very well put together museum in my opinion. Great place to reflect. Finally reached LA, spent a few minutes a the beach, hometown buffet, then took Kwang to LAX to catch his flight to Korea.
Me driving
Manzanar
Fun...with Eggs!
A very fun week for me, and I hope Kwang, BriAnna, and Daniel all had fun too. One thing I will not enjoy about quarter system is how late they get out. So next year I may not be able to do something like this with my best friends. Well I hope that I still do get more opportunities to have some adventures like this in the future.