Winter Solstice at Muir Woods. Muir Woods National Monument, California. December 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Last December I first found out about this wonderful annual event at Muir Woods – a winter solstice festival. Although the event starts in the afternoon (officially at 3:00 p.m.), the real fun at [...]
The autumn color season in the Sierra Nevada should start very soon. Actually, if you count – as I do – the dry grasses and the high elevation ground plants going dormant, it has already begun. But the real show is the turning of the aspens, mostly in the eastern Sierra, starting around the very [...]
Correction: I just saw that the road did not open today… It will apparently open on WEDNESDAY. Sorry!
Just a few days late for me – I was up that way late last week – Tioga Pass has opened will open this Wednesday, at least according to a story in the West Coast Imaging Blog. Let [...]
From SFGate:
SKIING / Free-heelers get their days. Skiers from around the West will head to Bear Valley Mountain Resort next week for the annual Telemark Ski Festival. The festival will run Feb. 8-10 at Bear Valley, which is just off Highway 4 in the central Sierra east of Arnold (Calaveras County)… [SFGate: Tom Stienstra]
As a [...]
Tom at Two-Heel Drive (why do I always type To-Hell Drive the first time? ;-) has posted a couple of interesting announcements.
First, he has announced that the Annual Ground Hogs Day Invitational Hike will take place on Saturday Sunday, February 2 3*. You are invited, so it must be an invitational, right? Details are not [...]
From an article in SFGate:
Yosemite National Park received a treasure out of its own past Friday when philanthropist Bill Lane presented the park with the original “Grand Register of Yo-Semite Valley” at a small ceremony at Stanford University.
The Grand Register was a fixture at the Cosmopolitan, a bath house and saloon in the early days [...]
(An old article – posted here so as not to lose it during the site transition.)
The second Amgen Tour of California is presently rolling through the state – pretty exciting stuff! I managed to get to the prologue stage in San Francisco last week, where I shot a number of photographs. (I am also gradually [...]
Or, “Hikers Can Blog?”
From Two-Heel Drive:
Groundhog Day Invitational pix. We hiked four hours along the misty ridges of Las Trampas Regional Wilderness, just up the road from San Ramon. Mount Diablo poked above the mist like the Kilimanjaro wannabe that it is. Temperatures, mild; winds, just enough to dry the sweat.
Tom is describing our “bloggers’ [...]
Seen at Two-Heel Drive:
Next hiking meet-up: Las Trampas Feb. 3. Gambolin Man will be the guest of honor/bullseye of blame at Las Trampas Regional Wilderness near San Ramon on Saturday, Feb. 3. For now, let’s make the start time 10 a.m.
Weather will be the wild card. There’s no point making this [...]
Post-Groundhog Day Hike Delayed
I guess it will still be a post-Groundhog Day hike if we do it in a few weeks, right? Despite the fact that Groundhog Day means nothing in any concrete sort of way – or perhaps because of this – a group of us were going to do a hike at Coe Park. But it [...]