Eastern Sierra hiking summary

We recently spent 5 days in Mammoth and Bishop, doing a day hike every day. Here are the pointers to the blog posts and photos for each of those hikes.

Bennettville and Shell Lake Upper Rock Creek Ruby Lake Blue Lake Lakes Basin from Saddlebag Lake

Beautiful Blue Lake

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Logging the TVC: Everest Challenge cache

The challenge to log this cache is to sum the difference between the lowest elevation and highest elevation on a hikes to find caches. I sorted through a few caches I remembered, and found 20 caches that total over 29,035 ft. The first two in the list below were tough for me—the first because of […]

Logging the TVC: Byte Overflow challenge cache

GC321HZ is a challenge cache that requires the finding in a single day of enough caches so that the sum of the difficulty stars and the terrain stars exceeds 256. I was unsure if I could qualify, but I ran the numbers of my maximum find day—an outing with the SoCal 4×4 group in the […]