Planning to spend 2 or 3 weeks May20th on into June hiking in the hopefully sunny, still snowy Eastern High Sierra.
Will be spending nights in the backcountry but also planning to do some long day hikes. For those days and the days between longer outings, I'd like to spend nights in a campground where I can rest and do some car camping.
What are your favorite campgrounds from Lone Pine to Lee Vining?
For me the ideal campground would: be beautiful, have access to trails into backcountry, be closer to 8000' elevation rather than 3000' in the Owens Valley, permit fires, have shade and lots of women. No particular order.
Thanks!