Trips and Vacations
My wife and I did our first summit of Mt. Whitney. Rather the popular "one day hike", we did our more enjoyable "backcountry" trek. We did it via Horseshoe Meadows, during a 4 day, 4 night trek. Drive up, Sunday, 7/26/09 We arrived to Lone Pine Sun [...]
Lenny is out of town with family, so I'm home alone. Since we won't be doing our annual Yosemite trip, i've still got the itch to do a hike. It's been a few years since i've done a Solo overnight, so I planned out a decent one to the local Mt San J [...]
Lenny and I took a little day hike, both in preparation for our big Yosemite trip in August, and to get out on the Memorial Day weekend. Lenny blew right up the 3.5 mile, 2500' climb. My fat ass wasn't so rabbit like. Felt like I hadn't walked/hi [...]
Lenny and I are planning a little backpacking trip to Yosemite this summer. If you call a 30 mile hike over 4 days fun, that's us :) Here's tentative schedule! Mon 8/7 8:00 am, Depart SD, drive to Yosemite Valley Mon 8/7 6:00 pm, Stay at backpacker [...]
At the end of summer of 2002, I had 3 weeks off in between jobs, so I decided to plan myself a nice long solo trip to local mountains for a 4 day / 3 night trip. It was to start at 6,500ft and make it to 10,500 ft to San Bernardino Peak Trail, then o [...]