I was planning on driving out to see if the bottom gate is open and maybe do a short hike up to LBS to check conditions, but I ran 20 miles last night and I'm too beat today to do it.
Anyways, I've been calling around Lone Pine, and no one seems to know if the road is open. I talked to all the local gas stations and of them one thought that the lower gate *might* be open; the other two had no idea.
It's looking like our playboy governor is going to partially re-open the state this week, including retail and some restaurants, so I'm looking forward to some off-season hiking up there before it gets hammered after the 15th. Maybe put some money into the Owens Valley Economy. I spoke with someone at Eastern Mountain Sports as part of my intel gathering process; they didn't know about the gate but they said that the shutdown has been really hard on businesses over there.
Last edited by 123Zero; 05/02/20 08:10 PM.
