By tradition, I join a group of backpacking friends almost every year for an “end of season” pack trip in mid-October. The usual plan is to head to Tuolumne Meadows late on a Friday and hike, either that night or the next morning, to the Fletcher Lake - Vogelsang High Sierra Camp area. However, mid-October [...]
It is September - actually it may October when you read this - and time to chase the aspens in the eastern Sierra. I made my first serious attempt of the year yesterday. Here’s how the madness unfolded…
On Friday night - pack stuff for the day, including enough gear that I could stay out overnight [...]
Aspen-Lined Road. Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
Just a “get out of the car and shoot” photo on a back road just south of Bridgeport…
Sierra Aspen Grove, Sun. Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
I’ll write more about my adventure later…
Owen, my good friend and fellow talusdancer has posted his account of our August week-long pack trip from Horseshoe Meadow to Symmes Creek via New Army Pass, Crabtree Pass, and Shepherd Pass. Among other interesting things, it includes something I cannot often provide at this web site - photographs of me backpacking! :-)
Last week I began recounting some of my Summer 2007 backpacking experiences with a description of Crossing Shepherd Pass. Here I’ll continue with another pass from the same trip, New Army Pass.
First a bit of background. A few years ago, a previous talusdancers trip took us into the same area. We began that trip at [...]
For nearly two weeks now I’ve been meaning to start writing up the two longish Sierra Nevada pack trips I took earlier this summer, but life and the major task of describing two weeks of trail travel and putting together the photos have held me back. Rather than continuing to wait, I’ve decided to start [...]
SFGate’s Tom Stienstra reports on his
I spent the first three days of this past week in the Tuolumne Meadows area, camping in Tuolumne and getting in some quality day-hiking and photography time.
I arrived on Monday and (surprise!) easily got a camp site at Tuolumne. Apparently lots of people don’t understand what an early start we’re having to this year’s [...]
Fedak: Big Basin to the Sea
Fedak posts description of his hike from Big Basin State Park HQ to Waddell Beach. I’ve wanted to do this hike, or at least a similar version, for some time. I’ve hiked a ways up the trail from Waddell Beach a couple of times, and I’ve hiked out from Big Basin HQ to a point [...]