Yosemite Cabin Information - cross post

[katiesue]

The Chevron in Bishop had a whole isle of chains and cables on Sunday. But it's not really on your way.

Napa sometimes has them. When I got my last set here they told me that basically they do one order for the season and when they're out they're out. What about Bakersfield?

[SacTown Chronic]

You can only get sand chains in Bakersfield.


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[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I've seen a lot of people go a long way to be turned around for lack of chains.

Originally Posted by MouseWife

iSm, I think you would find them on your route ... as those places might be more prone to snowfall.

That's what we're relying on. I'm not gonna bother calling around here. Winter's long been over. We had snow in Southern California for about a week.

Originally Posted by MouseWife

And, I have to ask {too lazy to go and search}, where did you get reservations, iSm? I thought you had campground ressies?

We cancelled our campground ressies when a spot opened up in the cabin. Too bad, because Lower Pines campground ressies are usually hard to come by, but I got these with no problem (perhaps because its freezing at night in Lower Pines in mid-April, who knows? I won't.)

The ressies I earlier referred to were hotel reservations in San Francisco that would have had to be cancelled yesterday to incur no charge. K and I had a long talk and decided to put our faith in finding snow chains somewhere from Manteco to Merced.

Originally Posted by katiesue

The Chevron in Bishop had a whole isle of chains and cables on Sunday. But it's not really on your way.

Not really, but it reminds me ... during that long talk yesterday, K recalled traveling from the eastern side of the Sierra through Yosemite to the west in April ... and his discovery that April doesn't mean what we at lower elevations think it means, when he was turned back after driving quite a distance through the Park on the Tioga Road.


Ooops.


I'm really not in the mood to do anything like that, so I hope we find snow chains in Merced or Turlock or somewhere. (Or that we don't get caught if we lie about having them "in the back.")