A rest day in the eastern Sierra

September 4, 2010, 8:36 pm

Given that yesterday was a 13 mile hike up to Sam Mack meadow, and tomorrow is a planned hike to the summit of 14K ft White Mountain, today needed to be a kick-back day. After a leisurely breakfast and then coffee and goodies at Erik Schat’s Bakkery, we headed up to Tom’s Place and then […]

September 4th, 2010 | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment

Attacking Sam Mack Meadow

September 3, 2010, 10:04 pm

Beautiful high country back there

Today our hiking led us up the north fork of Big Pine Creek to Sam Mack Meadow. On the edge of the meadow is a geocache with a particular difficulty and terrain rating that I need for a geocaching challenge I am working on. It’s not a particularly easy hike, […]

September 3rd, 2010 | Category: Geocaching, Outdoors | One comment

Off to Bishop for some hiking

September 2, 2010, 10:30 pm

This little gold-mining locomotive has seen better days

Because the UC Barcroft Lab near White Mountain is opening the gate on Sunday (shortening the hike to the summit by 4 miles round-trip), we decided to brave the holiday crowds and traffic and spend the weekend in Bishop.

Instead of following our normal route on […]

September 2nd, 2010 | Category: Geocaching, Outdoors | One comment
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