It’s becoming a disturbing trend. Whenever I talk to rangers they provide misleading information. In the summer they tried to scary me away from Big Arroyo saying that the rivers were impassible, when in fact in was lower than knee high crossing even in the afternoon.
This weekend it just got ridiculous. Rangers in Lone Pine insisted that the Onion Valley road to is closed. I figured couple of extra miles is Ok and went there anyway. To my astonishment, not only there was no road block, but there was a NP Service vehicle at the trailhead! Seriously, do they know what their own people doing?