I’m not qb’ng anything. I’m just writing about what I’ve seen with my own two eyes, in places most people never get to.
I have lived in and visited and/or had family live in everyplace you mentioned for your visits to California. I have seen a lot more with my two eyes in the 60+ years that I lived in CA. The Eastern Sierras are not even close to what the Western Sierras are like. They are like comparing the Olympic Pennisula to Spokane.