The other side than Lone Pine and Mammoth, although I’ve been there a lot because we lived on that side for yearsvtoo.
on the other side, we were in a little community called the Ponderosa (misnamed because Ponderosa Pines exist 1000’ lower). It’s above Springville, Tulare, Porterville.
I worked for 17 days at Vermilion Valley Resort, on Edison Lake, while hiking the PCT. It’s accessed by Fresno and all things eastbound. Huntington Lake is nearby. Mono Hot Springs too.
I’ll check out the map.
The west side of the Sierras gets bombed with rain and snow. The east side, not so much. I hiked up to Mt. Whitney- 14,508,’ two times out of four hikes.
Speaking of Ponderosa Pines, the White Mountains of eastern Arizona, are reputed to be covered by the largest stand in the world. I lived up there in Show Low, Lakeside, and Pinetop, and worked on the Ft. Apache Indian Reservation, east of McNary, for a company that made and built log homes. The Apaches would harvest the trees, and our mill would turn out the logs, milling them with a tongue and groove joinery, giving the Apaches a log for every log we kept. I worked in the cabinet shop next door to the mill.