It looks like it will probably be Monday (rather than Sunday, as originally planned) but I’m going to head up to the Tuolumne/Tioga region for a few days this week to do some early summer hiking and photography. I understand that the campground is still working in first-come-first-served mode, so I’ll try to get up [...]
Tom at Two-Heel Drive is preparing to switch from many daily posts to one major weekly post. Here’s a bit of what he has to say for himself:
Reinvention time. OK, so all my hard work of the last 20 months (OK, goofing off, but still…) has earned me an audience of about 200 [...]
Happy first day of summer!
According to an article in SFGate…
A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear. But the encounter last weekend proved fatal for the bear.
Sounds like a story about a pretty tough guy taking on a bear [...]
Earlier I posted a short piece referencing the SFGate article about the unfortunate death on the Half Dome cable route. I now see that SFGate outdoor writer Tom Stienstra has posted an entry in his blog on the subject, and that many have commented on it.
I’m prepared to revise my initial thinking on this a [...]
From an SFGate article: Rangers re-examining safety of popular hike after a fatal fall from cables during final ascent
Nohara didn’t have time to speak or even shout before he slid off the side of Half Dome to his death, becoming the third fatality within a year off the 4,800-foot granite dome.
The death of Nohara on [...]
From Yosemite Explorer - Yosemite in pictures:
Fern Ledge: John Muir’s Yosemite Falls
There is nothing in Yosemite Valley quite like a hike to Fern Ledge. Within minutes, the Fern Ledge hike will take you from the bustling, crowded, Lower Yosemite Falls area to a quiet, unmaintained trail that leads you past dense beds of flowers (Elegant [...]
Tom Stienstra at SFGate describes the hike to a Sierra peak that I must visit - it shares my last name!
An overlooked hike that should be on everybody’s list. From 10,365-foot Mitchell Peak, you can extend your arms and feel like the entire Sierra Nevada is within your reach. Scanning from right to left, you [...]
Tom Mangan reports:
China’s pollution landing in California. Airborne crud from the China boom is settling in the High Sierra, according to this story my employer published today.
This story hammers home the myth of “cheaper goods from China.” These goods are not cheap, they’re just being sold at a discount against their environmental costs, [...]
I’m about to be a happy camper again…
… since I just finished grading the last bunch of final exams. Tomorrow I spend the morning at the college turning in grades and taking care of some other end-of-year business. Then I have the whole summer ahead of me - yay!
(I like to think of my income-free summer months not as unemployment, but as [...]