The supplementary lottery on April 1 has a bit of a West Coast bias with the midnight (Eastern) check in.
I thought it was mentioned that they are going to wait until 7am Pacific since it would be when the visitor center opens? May be wrong on that...
(and I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't go smoothly, given the many web problems thus far; their lottery page was poorly designed. Many folks noted that data simply disappeared midway through their tedious, non-intuitive application.)
Don't blame Inyo for all these problems, sure they are the ones that have to permitting office, but they don't (As far as I know) actually make the changes to recreation.gov
Maybe the old method (described as paper applications randomly mixed by fans blowing them around a closet) wasn't so bad. At least it didn't cost six dollars send one in.
The paper method was a lot more labor intensive than the online one. Sure it may be more work for us to input the data, but we just do it a few times... Imagine if it were YOUR job to sort out and file 12000+ permit applications in a 6 week window. NO THANK YOU!
Anyway, good luck to one and all!
Thanks, you too!
