From weather underground:
One third of Arctic ice cap now missing; Midwestern floods; tropical update. Sea ice in the Arctic continues its record decline, thanks to unusually cloud-free conditions and above-average temperatures. For August 21, the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated that fully one third of the Arctic ice cap was missing, compared [...]
Tidelands, South San Francisco Bay. August 22, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Photographed during the landing approach to San Jose Airport.
New York Times:
Judge Orders Reports on Global Warming. The Bush administration violated federal law by missing deadlines to produce a study on the impact of global warming, now as much as two years overdue, a federal judge ruled. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Science]
It has been a crazy month - and posting has suffered a bit here.
I’ve been on two week-long pack trips during August, first in the Minarets area and then in the Mt. Whitney area. After returning from the second trip I was called out of town on short notice and spent almost a week in [...]
SFGate’s Tom Stienstra reports on his
To follow up on my recent post about late-July Sierra Nevada photographs, here is a black and white photo from the same trip.
Banner Peak, Thousand Island Lake. Sierra Nevada, California. July 27, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
During the latter part of July I spent about a week in the eastern Sierra, first near Tuolumne Meadows and Mono Lake and then on a 6-day pack trip with my brother and his family, during which we explored the areas around Ediza and Thousand Island Lakes in the Ansel Adams wilderness area.
Mounts Ritter and [...]
From Tom Mangan at a href=”http://tommangan.net/twoheeldrive/”>Two-Heel Drive (Click on Tom’s link for the full story):
4WheelBob profiled in the Contra Costa Times. Ned MacKay, who writes a weekly column about the East Bay parks, mentions Herr Coomber.
… “I don’t go anywhere in a hurry,” Coomber says, “But I do get there.”
The article mentions Bob’s [...]
Paul McHugh reports on recent developments at the Sierra Club’s venerable Sierra Nevada lodge (”The spirit of John Muir survives“):
A boxer who refuses to stay down often becomes a crowd favorite, even if he doesn’t walk off with the belt. Maybe that’s why Clair Tappaan Lodge shows small but steady gains in popularity.
This picturesque inn, [...]
Bob At The Top!
Tom Mangan reports from Bishop:
Bob did it!. Bob Coomber, AKA 4WheelBob, summitted White Mountain last night as the sun set on the High Sierra.
I’m posting from the Super 8 in Bishop so I have to dash… it’s a six-hour drive back to San Jose, and I’m going to try to pitch a story for tomorrow’s [...]