Photo: Champion Sparkplug Mine

Champion Sparkplug Mine

High on the slopes of White Mountain is the old Champion Sparkplug Mine (also known as the Jeffery Mine). The mine produced high-grade andalusite that was used in production of pre-WWII Champion Sparkplugs. It’s tough to get there, with a challenging 4×4 road and equally challenging trails that haven’t been maintained […]

Mountain Lion install

OS X Mountain Lion lives on my desktop now. The install was straightforward, although with the OS and related app updates that were also released today, the download was over 7 Gb. The automatic reboot hung (seems like that’s happened on previous OS updates), but a power off/on cycle fixed it. I have a couple […]

Eastern Sierra day hikes for 2012

It has been too long since we have been to the eastern Sierras. In fact, the last time was in January and our destination was actually Death Valley.

Middle Gaylor Lake

We headed over to Mammoth, but stopped for a short hike to Gaylor Lakes. The trailhead is right at the east entrance to Yosemite. […]