I’ll only post a brief note today, but I returned from a 9-day trans-Sierra pack trip earlier this week. We followed the High Sierra Trail from Crescent Meadow on the west side of Sequoia National Park to its opposite end on the east side at Whitney Portal.
I’ll be unusually busy - in a good way - during the next week plus a few days. So don’t be surprised if I don’t respond to emails right away. Please accept my advance apology, and be assured that I will get back to you eventually.
Dan
I just replied to an email from future European visitor to Yosemite who wanted to know a bit about visiting the Young Lakes region in the Yosemite National Park high country, and I thought it might be useful to share the message with others who may want to go there. Here is the text, slightly [...]
Since my outdoor adventures involve a significant amount of travel, and since the price of gas and environmental concerns make it more and more necessary to think about the impacts of such travel, I thought I’d write something about the car we bought last year. Yes, a Prius.
Nah. Not possible. But…
I am going on a rather substantial pack trip later this summer, as I do every summer with a group of my friends. (The basic idea is a west-to-east transit of the Sierra Nevada that climaxes at the summit of Mt. Whitney.) I’ve been backpacking for decades, but it seems like before [...]
I don’t have any first hand info about the fire since I’m not in Yosemite, but reports I’m hearing (from a variety of sources ranging from newspapers to people who are there) includes:
The route from Merced/Mariposa that follows the Merced River past El Portal is now apparently closed due to the fire. (The more southerly [...]
Seen, of all places, at oboeinsight*:
And He Makes Violin Bows
I know my husband, Dan, will enjoy reading about him, too.
English concedes that he is slowing down, that the mountains are steeper than they once were. For his 90th birthday, he vows to make the hike out carrying 40 pounds.
- Patty [oboeinsight]
Read the fascinating article [...]
One of my local online “newspapers,” apparently attempting to provide fair and balanced coverage of the two presumptive presidential candidates, posted the following articles about McCain and Obama today:
200,000 Cheer Obama In Berlin - Presumptive nominee calls on Europeans and Americans to work together.
McCain visits German restaurant — in Ohio
So, Why NOT Drill More?
The election season has begun to bring the usual set of invented issues chosen by the candidates and their handlers to differentiate them from their opponents. My view is that the call for opening the arctic and offshore areas for more drilling is really more about that than about “solving the energy crisis.” Why?
The oil [...]