PCT 2018 Day 35, May 27, Sunday.
Start town of Independence
End Independence
Miles walked: ZERO
While taking a rest day, I do the routine preparations like purchasing and preparing hiking meals using the two convenience stores in town ($$), eating lots of town food, and researching the trail ahead. And the Eastern California Museum a couple of blocks away had good exhibits, particularly the Manzanar internment camp of USA citizens of Japanese background.
A Native American basket exhibit was also worth seeing.
And details of the Owens Valley project to bring water all the way to Los Angeles, part of the plot of the movie Chinatown, should be seen.
Outdoor mechanical artifacts, including some used on the water project, are out back.
Later I took a self-guided walking tour of town. Some giant Sequoias grow here. This one is decorated with lights for the holiday season.
A row of sycamores gives shade to the road back to the trailhead,
Rows of trees along the road are so pleasant, don’t you think?
Ha!