Tuolumne Meadows Gas Station closes for good 9/15/15

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tornado

climber

lawrence kansas

Jul 17, 2015 - 08:23am PT

whoa moustaches.

Gary

Social climber

From A Buick 6

Jul 17, 2015 - 08:56am PT

Tuolumne Meadows free shuttle stops 9/2016 for good. The prospectus does allow for a "fee or free" shuttle to be operated at the expense of Concessioner. NPS may have a plan to fund but there is no public info available

Wow.

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Jul 17, 2015 - 09:16am PT

That place was home base for me and will forever be a sweetspot in my mind.

I still have my keys to the gas station bathroom and YMS, even though I never was employed by either entity, other than under the table "contract" work by Boss Brossman.

I wonder if the keys still work?

Bill Frye & 1982 gas prices, seemed really high at the time.

Mtbphoto

Trad climber

Mammoth Lakes, Ca

Jul 17, 2015 - 12:37pm PT

@ John. This is just so interesting! Using Google I can see 'Tenaya Lake Trail' running along the SE side of the lake - which I take to be the old road? But HOW did it avoid Olmstead Point? Zooming right in I can see a trail/path downhill from Olmstead point sort of paralleling the modern road - is that it?

I have hiked the old road from the May Lake parking lot, you go north and then it winds around south toward the shore of Tenaya, you can still see some pavement and bunch cuts. There is a trail marker there and a bus stop nearby

JEleazarian

Trad climber

Fresno CA

Jul 17, 2015 - 12:44pm PT

Correct. The old road crosses the current road between Olmstead Point and Tenaya Lake. Incidentally, the old road was a sufficient deterrent to large-scale automobile traffic to justify a High Sierra Camp at Tenaya Lake BITD.

John

Gary

Social climber

From A Buick 6

Jul 17, 2015 - 01:01pm PT

Next time you're in LA you'll have to take some time to hike up the East Fork of the San Gabriel River. Don't do it on a weekend, bungee jumpers have taken over. Go early and you'll probably see big horns up above the bridge.

jaaan

Trad climber

Chamonix, France

Jul 17, 2015 - 01:06pm PT

The old road crosses the current road between Olmstead Point and Tenaya Lake.

OK, got it now I think. In fact where it cuts the new road it's actually heading SSE. Seem to lose it once it gets to the E of the new road.

JEleazarian

Trad climber

Fresno CA

Jul 17, 2015 - 01:17pm PT

I love old road beds, dunno why.

Me, too -- obviously.

John

Gary

Social climber

From A Buick 6

Jul 17, 2015 - 01:22pm PT

Cool! What's that cable thingie I see above the bridge?

Not sure, but it might be leftover from the patented claim below, or maybe used during construction. They hadn't finished the tunnel the bridge leads into when the big flood of 1938 hit, wiping everything but the bridge out.

Easy hike, 10 miles roundtrip, 1000' of gain. Your feet will get wet. Nelson big horns come down in the morning and afternoon to drink from the river. Native rainbows, too.

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 17, 2015 - 02:42pm PT

Famous Bridge to Nowhere. No ramshackle construction here. It will stand forever. Sorta like Alice's Restaurant.

Not Jody, Obie.

Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber

Old and Broken Down in Appalachia

Jul 17, 2015 - 03:42pm PT

How many here remember the 1980 General Management Plan?

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 22, 2015 - 06:46am PT

Tuolumne Gas Station to be replaced by cell phone charging station. It will be solar however.

mastadon

Trad climber

crack addict

Jul 22, 2015 - 07:33am PT

Do you have a way to get in touch with Bill Frey??

johntp

Trad climber

socal

Jul 22, 2015 - 08:08am PT

So no fuel in Yos anymore?

edit: Lee Vining rates will be going up.

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Jul 22, 2015 - 05:00pm PT

Mr. Harder, I sent Bill's contact via your personal email.

Here are some other pics taken of the kitchen area of the gas station.

Messing around with Pinky while I should have been working on Bill's truck that he let me live in.

Earning my keep with can recycling, Big Bill Critchlow supervising.

Those cans were as good as a $10 bill as far as I was concerned.

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 22, 2015 - 07:37pm PT

Brown-eyed handsome man wears a Budwieser ad? Why is it that we've never seen a photo of Tobia without pretty women?

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Jul 22, 2015 - 09:02pm PT

Nice Tobia!
Critchlow and Pinky in all their archival glory.

The ramshackle YMS guide's kiosk, south wall of the TM gas station, 1986:

choose your fearless leader wisely ...