Lone Pine pit stop

Pit at Alabama Hills and Lone Pine; exited Cerro Gordo.

If you go

Lone Pine is the hinge of this whole stretch of the Eastern Sierra — it’s the basecamp for Mt. Whitney, the Alabama Hills, and Cerro Gordo, with the Museum of Western Film History in town to explain why every Western you’ve ever seen looks like this. Coming down off Cerro Gordo and regrouping here is the natural reset before the next leg.