I may suggest to my wife that we forget about "roughing" it with the folks. You see, my in-laws along with my brother-in-law and his wife are coming with us to Aspen Grove. They have no idea this place exists, but WE DO!
"Honey, let's say we do some fishing down towards WND while the rest of them figure out what they are going to do since there is no television or cell reception!" I am serious as a heart attack about the TV. My FIL and MIL need their MTV (actually CNN). If they can't get TV reception, they plug in their DVD player and watch movies. They did that while we camped in Tuolumne Meadows two years ago. UNBELIEVABLE, but I love 'em both.
Anyhoo...what THEY don't smell won't hurt them. We just hope they don't catch a whiff of what we purchased at WND. Yes, we must exercise caution as to not attract the bears, too.
Maybe we can dine by campfirelight without being too suspicious with a loaded sidearm by our sides. Gee, Aspen Grove is not in a National Park now is it! Did I just say that?
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
So 'tude, just where IS this "Aspen Grove"? I can't seem to find it.
You take Tioga Pass down towards Lee Vining/WND to the Poole Power Plant road (first right), then hang another righ and head west. Campground is on the left. Can't miss it.
$14.00 a day. Pit toilets, tables, firepit, bearlockers, fishing stream adjacent, plenty of shade next to the stream. Best kept secret west of Yosemite!
