{"id":391,"date":"2020-06-21T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2024-05-04T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T18:30:52","slug":"the-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/21\/the-sierra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">June 18th &#8211; 21st, 2020 | Birthday Weekend | Millions of Mosquitoes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200619_TheSierra-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dispersed Camping outside Stanislaus National Forest\" data-id=\"426\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200619_TheSierra-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/21\/the-sierra\/20200619_thesierra\/\" class=\"wp-image-426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200619_TheSierra-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200619_TheSierra-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200619_TheSierra-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200619_TheSierra-scaled.jpg 1709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DEE_0604-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"427\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DEE_0604-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/21\/the-sierra\/dee_0604\/\" class=\"wp-image-427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DEE_0604-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DEE_0604-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DEE_0604-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DEE_0604-scaled.jpg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">June 18th, Thursday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It was a Thursday when we drove out to Stanislaus National Forest. Camp sites have just opened up since shelter in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We arrived as the sun was setting. Drove to the first campground and to our dismay, it was full. So we kept on, drove to the next campground, and the next, and the next&#8230;. All 10 campgrounds in the forest were fully occupied, with huge groups of people partying and giant trailers blasting music. We were looking for tranquility and a tiny space to build our tent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">So we left Stanislaus. It was 10pm by now; we decided to find a dispersed site outside of the national forest to camp. I felt a sense of relief as the campground noise drifted further and further away from us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I often wonder, why do people camp in large groups? Why do people blast their radio or play terrible pop music when they are outdoors? For us, we head to nature to seek silence, isolation and to be closer to it. To hear the birds sing, revel in the spring blossoms and immerse in the colors of sunset. To look up at night and be surrounded by millions of glistening stars, and realize we are minuscule in the entire Universe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">June 19th, Friday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">After breakfast, we drove out and found a deserted campground. Situated by a meadow, it was the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes as the snow from the mountains melted. Millions of mosquitoes buzzed around us but as night fell, they gradually dispersed, each into their nesting ground as they call it a day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"travelersmap-container-69f4a9919b9c7\" class=\"travelersmap-container\" style=\"z-index: 1; min-height: 10px; min-width:10px; height:600px;width:100%; max-width:; max-height:; position:relative;\"><div style=\"position:absolute; z-index:-1;top: 50%;text-align: center;display: block;left: 50%;transform: translate(-50%,-50%);\">Travelers' Map is loading...<br>If you see this after your page is loaded completely, leafletJS files are missing.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DEE_0664-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Eagle Meadows Campground, Stanislaus National Forest, California\" class=\"wp-image-392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DEE_0664-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DEE_0664-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DEE_0664-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Eagle Meadows Campground, Stanislaus National Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>[lfh-gpx src=https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Stanislaus_National_Forest_Eagle_Meadow.gpx title=&#8221;My travel in Massif Central&#8221; color=red width=4 ]An exceptionnal trail trough &#8230;.[\/lfh-gpx]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">June 20th, Saturday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[lfh-gpx src=https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Stanislaus_National_Forest_Eagle_Pass.gpx title=&#8221;My travel in Massif Central&#8221; color=red width=4 ]An exceptionnal trail trough &#8230;.[\/lfh-gpx]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">June 21st, Sunday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[lfh-gpx src=https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Stanislaus_National_Forest_Bell_Meadow.gpx title=&#8221;My travel in Massif Central&#8221; color=red width=4 ]An exceptionnal trail trough &#8230;.[\/lfh-gpx]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,90,91],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","category-adventures-by-location","category-california","tag-california-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinesneezer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}