After the lottery for Washington’s world famous Enchantments didn’t go our way (surprise, surprise) we had to scramble to find another course of action. Two of us live in the Bay Area and the other in Seattle, so the Sierra became the obvious choice.
Our plan was to road trip out from Oakland to Big Pine via Tioga Pass, with various stops en route to three days of backpacking in the John Muir Wilderness, capping it off with a different set of stops on the drive home.