I have been watching the numbers for Inyo in recreation.gov. I had reserved a Whitney Zone Permit (North Fork Lone Pine Creek) for today (Sat) but when I called the Inyo Permit Office they would not give me a Permit because the Whitney Zone is still closed but they said everything else is open. It seems the "walk-in" quota permits have stopped being dumped into the reservable permit bucket or they are dumped in there in batches (once a week?). On Wednesday, the last day with the available formerly "walk-in" quota permits was the 18th and it is still the same on Saturday. For example, Trail Pass (non-quota) has 10 (could be set to 1000, I guess) for the 18th, but then the 19th has "W" (walkup/unlimited). I expect that if a new batch of "walkup" permits shows up the Trail Pass should be converted from "W" to 10, but recreation.gov is pretty chaotic at this time. I would watch and wait.

Has anybody successfully gone through this Inyo "virtual permit" process here?

Last edited by jaym; 06/06/20 02:49 PM.