Tag: mountains
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California Fly-by’s
This post is being reposted because when looking at this while working on yet another new template, I immediately recognized parts of the Eastern Sierra. My mother would have said: “If it had been a snake, it would have bit you.” I flew south the day after the Wet Washington post. It was raining when I left…
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Hiking the Northern Cascades, Washington, Sauk Mountain
Imagine if you were part of a clock and you were standing at 12 o’clock, the mountain was so steep from the trailhead it was about 10:30 on the clock.
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Hiking the Washington Cascades, Mt. Baker, Skyline Divide
This little ranger station on the approach to MANY trails on Mt. Baker and other mountains in the Cascades had the most beautiful stone-work and woodwork detail. Even though it’s been 80 years since President Roosevelt put young men to work in the Civilian Conservation Corps, you can still see their handiwork throughout the United…
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Hiking the Sierras from South Lake
This week’s featured hike is a combination of two hikes from two different weeks that started and ended at the same place. South Lake is the trailhead for Bishop Pass which leads to the Pacific Crest Trail (the west’s version of the Appalachian Trail); the PCT travels a total distance of 2,650 miles through California, Oregon and Washington until…
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Hiking the Sierras – Blue Lake (almost)
Since I previously hiked East Coast hills, or rode my mountain bike on ‘pretty big hills’ in Fair Hill, Maryland, hiking the Sierras has been a learning experience. I follow a guide-book: “50 Classic Day Hikes of the Eastern Sierra” by Devon Fredericksen and Reed Harvey, to know what I’m tackling ahead of time, particularly…
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Rodeos – they start ’em young!
During the last month, I’ve had the pleasure of attending two rodeos – both of which involved young people. One was the California High School Rodeo Championships in Bishop and the other was Fish Lake Valley Rodeo in Nevada. The two rodeos were decidedly different. Fish Lake Valley is a sparsely populated desert valley on…
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Hiking the Sierras, Paiute Pass
There are so many places to hike in the Eastern Sierras, one hardly knows where to begin. I have several posts worth of photos of recent hikes and thought about lumping them together. But each hike has its own rewards, so I promise not to bore you with too many photos of the ‘same’ thing.…
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Three Favorite Songs
Write about the three most important songs in your life — what do they mean to you? Hmmm . . . My oldest son asked me recently about a song I used to play a lot on the piano when he was a child, who knew he was listening? Playing the piano was never easy…
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Weekend Ramblings
What was begun as a photographic blog seems to be turning into more words than I expected. I find that I do a lot of research, look up a lot of words, and think about what to write before I snap a photo. Being a transplant from the East Coast has led me to explore…
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