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For Memorial Day weekend I got my Sierra Nevada season started by visiting Kennedy Meadows. This is the unofficial beginning of the Sierras according to Pacific Crest Trail hikers so I planned to invest some miles on this route. A windy night followed my journey north, and in the morning an interest...

I found another quarter on my Sierra trip, unfortunately it got lost somewhere else along the way. However I did return home with this cool bandanna that I rescued from a small pine tree near one of the Trinity Lakes.

Group dynamics can go both ways - helping to get over some fears, also peer pressure getting people into uncomfortable situations.

Very nice teke. That is one of my favorite areas, but I've not been to the glacier. Looks cool. I know you're not big on backpacking, so big ups for making that happen for Leisa. I probably have 1-2 backpacking trips in me each year. It's the least I can do for her. ;) You could probably do less......

Oh yeah, got this bad boy fixed permanently today. Drilled out the holes and replaced the bad rived with a screw and nylock nut. And I figured out how to collapse it correctly. This was also in the Big5 daily deals yesterday.

I'm way behind on writing about stuff, this was my trip in the middle of August. It was the second time my friend had ever been backpacking and the first with her own gear. Warmup While sitting up late on Saturday night I saw a FB post on the JMT group, a couple people were in Lancaster looking for ...

Ran out of photo space.... Day 3 Since we camped on grass we both had a lot of condensation in the morning, it was worse for me since I was using the single-wall Protrail instead of the Notch. Thankfully I brought along a Swedish sponge to wipe down the tent and then we waited a long time for the su...

tekewin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 4:47 pm Nice trip and photos. Were you on top of the Postpile? I've been there once, but it looks like you were on top of it.

Amazing lake shots. Great job leading a big trip.

Yes, we walked over the top of the Postpile. The trail from Rainbow Falls goes that way.

It was nice to see this area with no trash, I don't expect that to last much longer. Don't know which trail we were on, we took the dirt road down and then walked to the falls. From there we backtracked a little to the junction and walked up the left fork, which reached another junction where we tur...

Cloudripper ( https://ironhiker.blogspot.com/2015/08/cloudripper-and-vagabond-peak.html ) is one of my favorite names. I mean, it rips clouds. That was the first one I thought of on this topic. I've turned around twice planning to summit that via another great name, Thunder and Lightning Lake. Snow...

August 26-28 2024 Since my friend and I both survived a few days together earlier in the month I wanted to get her out again to use all the gear she bought this year. Looking at Inyo permits I was surprised to find two spaces available for this area, which I've always said is the best easy hike in t...

David R wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:47 pm I believe it is embers from the Bridge fire that got started up on Saturday with the Sana Ana winds.

I read that too. We woke up yesterday to ashes all over the yards in Claremont.

This weekend a few of us met up for some camping, hiking, eating and a little drinking. I met Sean on Friday at Chilao campground, arriving shortly before a fabulous sunset graced the western skies behind Josephine Peak. We sat up for a while in the spacious site, having some tequila and roasting a ...

Sorry I missed it. Devil Peak, the observatory and Mt. Mooney used to be heavily forested with no views except from parts of the road connecting the three. Which fire burned all of the trees? The station fire? Pretty sure it was Station. Here's a look from the other side of your photo. DSC00239.JPG

Looks like it turned into a nice day out there. How much of it is road vs trail?

I have not. Curious about what you were searching for that caused the YT algorithm to think you would also enjoy it.

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Really nice views from up there. Looks like good weather for hiking.

I ran across this LA Times article today, apparently it's in escrow right now. I don't see it happening, gathering about $17M from people purchasing exclusive passes. I also don't see how they plan to make snow. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-11-26/mt-waterman-ski-resort-sale-exclusi...

It was a fun hike, different for me because I usually just walk along trails so this was a slightly more technical journey. I spent the night on Saturday, while setting up camp I realized that I didn't have any trekking poles to support my tent- they are usually in my vehicle but I'm driving a loane...

Did you find the group from the sticker? If so it's cool to see that guerrilla campaign is actually working!

I'm proud to be one of those goofballs. While driving to the trailhead I got to see a really nice sunrise in my rearview mirrors, I arrived a little earlier to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and a breakfast pop-tart. Never having driven through Soledad Canyon, I was impressed with the late season tree...