If you can get a ride to Whitney Portal public
transportation can get you to Yosemite Valley, as long as you’re not in a
rush.
From the Portal you can walk or hitch hike down to
Lone Pine. From there we took the
Eastern Sierra Transit bus to Bishop, and then transferred to another bus to
Mammoth Lakes. Depending on what time
you arrive in Mammoth you’ll probably have to wait till the next day to catch
one of Yosemite National Park’s shuttles.
Their YARTS bus system has shuttles that drive all the way down to
Mammoth twice a day during peak season, at the time of this writing (they stop
service around Labor Day Weekend). This
bus can get you all the way to Yosemite Valley.
If you already have permits you can pick them up at
the Wilderness Office in the valley. If
you didn’t reserve a permit, like we didn’t, that’s where things get
tricky. In any case, if you’re trying
for a walk-in permit, know that they are in high demand and it may take a day
or two to secure one during peak season.
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