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Eastside's Mike McKenna scours the range from Bridgeport to Kernville, looking for the best places to drink and eat. And drink. Oh and other tidbits too.
Looking on to the highest and (arguably) grandest part of the Sierra Nevada over the Alabama Hills. STOCK PHOTO
GIVE LONE PINE A SHOT
WITHOUT A DOUBT, LONE PINE IS THE MOST famous town on the Eastside.
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LONG LIVE LEE VINING
LOCATED SOME 6,781 FEET ABOVE THE SEA, a wind-aided Frisbee toss from Mono Lake and a dozen miles downhill of Yosemite National Park, Lee Vining is the quintessential High Sierra hamlet.
THE KERNVILLE TRIANGLE
IF YOU HAVEN’T PARTIED IN KERNVILLE, then it’s the coolest place you’ve never been. If you have partied in Kernville, you probably don’t remember much of it and may have lost an undergarment. Either way, this guide should come in handy—although you’re on your own with your undies.
OLD MAMMOTH STYLE
THERE ONCE WAS A TIME, after gold rushes and before legendary skiing, when there wasn’t much more to Mammoth than, well, Old Mammoth—and the road that got you there. Coincidentally, that was also about the same time when the men were men and the sheep were nervous.
BUMMING AROUND BRIDGEPORT
BESIDES BEING THE MONO COUNTY SEAT and home to the county jail (sometimes called the “Bridgeport Hilton”), downtown Bridgeport has long been a great road trip spot to grab a beer, a bite to eat or to party like a dharma bum—the town did play a role in Jack Kerouac’s famous semi-fictional novel about the search for a true spiritual path through the heart of the High Sierra. So here are a few Bridgeport spots to keep any Buddha’s belly content.
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