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I just received this from Friends of the Inyo:

Citizen Science Volunteers Needed: Collect Data Monitoring the Solitude of the Eastern Sierra.

The U.S. Forest Service wants to make sure everyone visiting our wilderness areas has opportunities for solitude. It all begins with research, and Friends of the Inyo is assisting. And for that, we need YOU! Help Friends of the Inyo conduct visitor data collection for the Forest Service in various designated Wildernesses on the Inyo National Forest. While we will be collecting data across the Inyo National Forest in 2025, for the end of 2024 we are focusing on just the South Sierra, Inyo Mountains, and Boundary Peak areas.

Hike specific trails in specific areas, recording how many other people you encounter: that's it! Interested?

Contact Friends of the Inyo’s Stewardship Director, Lindsay Butcher, at Lindsay@friendsoftheinyo.org.

Thanks for the heads up. More specific details can be found in the November Newsletter of the Friends of the Inyo which is posted on their web site.

Also noted in the Newsletter is that this weekend (Nov 15-17) in Lone Pine is the Celebration of the Centennial of the Alabama Gates Occupation (Nov 16, 1924). The Centennial events are free and range from site visits to seminars.

Jim

The initial draft proposal had the additional goal of ear-tagging each one, too. Not sure why that was taken out...

Here's 17 minutes of Electric Solitude...
Monache Jeep Trail: SNF, INF, Kern Wild & Scenic...
I saw 1 vehicle all day...

This is on the Monache Jeep Trail and more...it crosses thru the Sierra National Forest (I think) into the Inyo National Forest. skirting the South Sierra Wilderness, and enters the Kern Wild & Scenic River (don't know the official title) area...fantastic fun with the few iches of new snow...

I just hope this isn't amother one of these "we need more quotas" things...I was planning on starting a go fund me to hire some attorneys to make the Whitney Perit system fair...read on the official website that they don't release unused permits back into the system...if true, it's bs...can't tell you the level of frustraion with No Permits Available and then going to the Portal and seeing not nearly the number of vehicles that a sell-out would entail...

A few minutes of off-trail travel (and yes, gain the Navigation Skills required prior to even thinking about it..or just learn how to use a track-back...) anywhere in the Sierra will get you all the solitude you could ever want...