HOW I HIKED TO KEARSARGE PASS

And lived to tell about it another day

Kearsarge Pass — courtesy of the author

Arriving at our annual family camping trip at Onion Valley in the Inyo National Forest, I am always surprised by the majestic beauty surrounding the campground. It is a nature lover’s dream with lodgepole pines, aspens, wild tiger lilies of deep yellow, intense purple monkshood, and pale pink lacy alliums — aka swamp onion, dotting the area around…