Vacation with family

Our family at the cabin

For several years now, we have tried to take a week-long vacation together with our kids and grandkids. We have been to McCall, Idaho, Bend, Oregon, Lake Tahoe several times, Lake Almanor, and Mammoth Lakes. This year we chose something close by to keep the travel time for the little […]

Twenty Lakes Basin

On our return drive from Mammoth Lakes, we stopped on the east side of Tioga Pass for a bit of hiking out of Saddlebag Lake. At the upper end of Saddlebag is a basin at roughly 10,000 ft with lots of lakes. We enjoyed our time there last year, and so returned for another visit, […]

Duck Pass trail

After coffee and bearclaw at Paul Schaat’s bakery, we drove up to the Duck Pass trailhead at Lake Mary. We both felt a bit better (more energy) today, so the climb up to Arrowhead Lake and Skelton Lake was not bad. We shared the trail with a large group of high school trail runners—a cross-country […]