Gardisky Lake and Sardine Falls over Labor Day Weekend.

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Here are the photos from our absolutely perfect Labor Day weekend camping trip to Lee Vining.  With Motel 6 going for $160/night we opted to camp at the Mono RV Park group tent site for $28/night and eat breakfast at Nicely's and dinner at the Whoa Nellie Deli.  I had not anticipated all of the Burning Man traffic on 395. A huge chunk of the Burners were from SoCal, I guess.  Although Z had a rough first night sleeping, we all managed to hike the extremely steep trail to Gardisky Lake on Sunday with smiles and a sense of awe.  

​We were rewarded with immaculate views from both sides of the lake as well as an abundance of sierra tree frogs hopping out of the meadows.   After dinner we headed down to the South Tufa parking area to watch the stars for a few minutes. 

We slept-in on Monday morning until 7:50am (late by camping standards), packed, ate and then took the easy trail to Sardine Falls just east of Sonora Pass.  Then we headed back to to reality.