I’m heading to the Sierra very early tomorrow morning for a quick fall day-hike and photgraphy trip. I’ll likely day hike in the Tuolumne/Tioga area on Saturday, camp nearby that night, and either hike in the same area on Sunday or possibly take the long way home via Lee Vining, Mono Lake and Sonora or [...]
My Western Mountaineering Flight Jacket arrived today. It is astonishingly light at something like 10 or 11 ounces. In makes my old (very old!) Sierra Designs jacket seem positively heavy by camparison.
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Mt. Hamilton from Almaden Quicksilver. September 18, 2004.
The first Pacific front of the season is approaching today, and it felt very much like Autumn.
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This site may be down for a little while at some point over the weekend while I add a hard drive and take care of some other server maintenance stuff.
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The interesting long-range forecast I posted yesterday has already been retracted, and it doesn’t look like any rain is heading my way in the near future.
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This is the kind of stuff I like to start watching for this time of year:
THE GFS REALLY GOES WILD NEXT WEEKEND…BRINGING SIGNIFICANT RAIN TO
THE N BAY SAT NIGHT/SUN AND OVER THE DISTRICT THE FOLLOWING MON AND
TUE. THIS IS ABOUT 4-6 WEEKS EARLIER THAN THE USUAL FIRST GOOD RAIN
FOR OUR DISTRICT. THE OTHER [...]
Randol Trail #2. Almaden Quicksilver Park. September 3, 2004.
Another version of a shot I posted a few days ago. I think I like the previous one better on the web site, but the new one seems to work better as a print.
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Fog and trees at Castle Rock State Park. May 22, 2004.
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Sierra fall colors
Aspens in Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra Nevada. September 26, 2004.
On this weekend’s quick Sierra trip I came close to hitting the peak of the autumn aspen colors - I think that the real peak may be perhaps a week away still.
This photo was taken in Lundy Canyon, which is just north of Lee Vining and [...]