Camping Essentials: The Devils Postpile

I have always loved camping. Nothing compares to the feeling of the great outdoors.  The thought of bringing nothing but your camping essentials brings a smile to my face. You get to spend a brief period immersed in nature and everything that it has to offer. It is getting increasingly difficult to have an outing without someone having their cell phones or laptops at their disposal, but camping gives you an excuse to tell them to put those high-tech toys away. I recently traveled up to Mammoth Mountain with a few people to visit a good friend of mine and we went camping. We headed up there with the assumption that we were only going to take the essentials. We were not going to be bringing any trailers, generators, or cots to make thing easier.  The camping essentials were the only items that we were bringing for our stay at the Devil’s Postpile. A cooler full of our food and beverages, sleeping bags, and tents were the only camping essentials that we would bring. It felt refreshing not to use our cell phones and other gadgetry. We realized that all we needed were the camping essentials. We started our fire with quarts rock and pentlandite and some dried brush. We also made our own multi-pronged spears for spear fishing, but quickly put them away after learning that there was a $5,000 fine if we used them to hunt. After spending a good 4 days in the woods, we all came to the same conclusion. It felt good to take a break from the city life and go camping for a few days. I went up to Mammoth for Labor Day (beginning of September) and I am already itching to go back. Camping is an activity does not have boundaries or restrictions. The scenery was beautiful at the Devils Postpile and I would highly recommend this as a place to camp. The fee was only $14 per night! I would however, like our readers to know that the elevation is relatively high, which might give some people issues. The elevation here lands somewhere around around 7,500 feet above sea level.