Bakersfield to Lone Pine
Those following my Avoid Sacramento post know that I'm looking for a route in January coming from above Sacramento south to Lone Pine. My question now is what if I go 99 down to Bakersfield and then t...
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dicknellen wrote:lanerd wrote:
I have to respectfully partially disagree with Dick.
Ron
If you are going to disagreed with it nice to have it done respectfully. We have done 395 in the winter, it just depends upon the winter. Last winter it was not usually a problem, hopefully next winter it will be, we need lots of snow in the mountains. It just would require watching weather reports and being flexible with your travel days. Dick
I have to respectfully agree with Dick! The one nice thing about California weather in the winter is it is very predictable. Snow storms in the mountains come from cold fronts that move through the area and they can see them coming days in advance and predict snowy conditions. Those storms just don't come up out of no where. If I would make the trip you're talking about, I'd take 80 over to 395 and go south, or at least plan to go that way. It they are predicting the possibility of snow, then just take the ugly old low road.
