This is the closest I ever made it to climbing Mt. Whitney. It would be interesting if the "east side" experts here recognize any of the views or locations.
This was my first camping trip with my parents and I remember my parents saying we were camping at Glacier Lodge. I believe this site is the Big Pine Creek Campground adjacent to Glacier Lodge, just outside Big Pine, California. I don't know what the ownership or relationship of the campground to the lodge was in 1959. I researched it some, and it was interesting to learn the glamorous history of Glacier Lodge, and fate of the lodge and its replacement.
All-in-all, it was a great trip with some hiccups.
It rained during this trip, and my WW II Army veteran dad was using a dark green Army surplus canvas tent. When it started raining hard in the middle of the night, he made me get out and help dig a drainage trench around the tent. Inside the tent, he told me not to touch the roof of the tent, and then I did, causing a leak inside. Hence, I learned why not to touch it. My father was not pleased.
I don't think this was my mother's style of camping. She doesn't have her normal happy smile on. As a family, I don't think we ever tent camped like this again. We only tent cabins and RVs after this trip.
I was four years old at the time, and the VW in the photo was our new (white) 1959 Bug. I remember the car well. Not long afterward, we moved to Tucson, Arizona. My parents would drive across the desert at night to visit family in So. Cal. in it while I curled up in the cubby behind the back seat to sleep. The bright red Coca Cola metal ice chest stayed in family use until the late 1970s. It was a workhorse of a cooler.
Some history of Glacier Lodge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Lodge
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| David and Dorothy Stone |
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| Our neighbor's campsite. |
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| 1959 Volkswagen Bug (white) |
