As I wrote yesterday, I’m taking a 14-day Sierra pack trip later this summer. I was going to try to carry 14 days of food - as I did when I was (much) younger. I know from my 9-day trip last summer that I can definitely carry 10 days of food and I think I [...]
As you may have heard, although Tioga Pass Road is open the Park Service and concessions are being slow about opening up services. Apparently many campgrounds are still closed as are some of the other facilities. Martha Claassen went thru there earlier this week and reports:
Tuesday I drove through the park to Twin Lakes and [...]
Martha Claassen sent me an email last week concerning her husband, Fred Claassen, who disappeared in the Hoover Wilderness Area north of the Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite during the summer of 2003.
Fred Claassen, 46, entered the Hoover Wilderness from Twin Lakes on Thursday, July 31, 2003. His itinerary was to hike by trail to [...]
Small photo of missing hiker Fred Claassen.
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Later this summer I and a group of friends will do the longest pack trip I’ve done in a number of years - 14 days on the trail between Agnew Meadow and South Lake. I can’t wait!
I did three trips of approximately this duration a number of years ago. The first two were with my [...]
Since I’m not always terribly selective about what photos I post on this web site - in may cases I post ‘em as I take ‘em - I have started another site where I will post my favorites: G Dan Mitchell Photography.
(Why the “G” you ask? I found a web site of a Canadian photographer [...]
A bit off-topic, but I love this stuff. Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time in the New York Times:
When it comes to the nature of time, physicists are pretty much at as much of a loss as the rest of us who seem hopelessly swept along in its current. The mystery of time [...]
(From a message from Martha Claassen.)
Hello Mr. Mitchell,
I came upon your site surfing the Tioga Rd. situation. I was drawn into it to see your photos of the Sawtooth Ridge, an area that has a great deal of meaning to me. The photo of the irises in the Bridgeport Valley is indeed a postcard view. [...]
Sunset. Lynn Canal near Juneau, Alaska. Copyright Dan Mitchell.
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Photo of missing hiker Fred Claassen.
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