Geocaching on a quick trip to Riverside

I took advantage of a trip to a birthday party in Riverside to pick up three fizzy square type geocaches (the kind where to qualify you must have filled the 81 squares of the Difficulty/Terrain rating matrix). Two of them were in Riverside along the Santa Ana hiking/biking trail and one was near Sedco Hills […]

Eileen’s birthday

We visit with the family in southern California too rarely, so when we got an invitation to Eileen’s birthday party in Riverside we decided to make a quick trip—down and back in a long weekend. We had a good time, and Karen enjoyed time with her brothers and cousin and nephews and nieces.

The […]

Need to train more for long, hard hikes

A hike I want to do is 14 miles and 4,000 ft of climbing. Today I hiked 9.5 miles at Del Valle Lake and climbed 1600 ft. It went fine, but I can tell I need more conditioning. It was a very nice day. I hiked in just a t-shirt. Here’s my track log and […]