Mentryville: hiking in the rain

January 23, 2012, 9:23 pm

Before driving home from our motel in Santa Clarita, we decided to take a little hike (and find some geocaches), even though it was lightly raining. Since checkout time wasn’t until 12 noon, we could hike, but still shower and change into dry clothes. We started our hike at the end of the public road […]

January 23rd, 2012 | Category: Geocaching, Outdoors | Leave a comment

Need to train more for long, hard hikes

January 11, 2012, 9:51 pm

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 […]

January 11th, 2012 | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment

Tioga Road is still open

January 5, 2012, 9:15 pm

We’ve had very little rain, which means the Sierras have received very little snow. No snow means (besides the ski-resorts hurting) all the roads over the Sierra passes are still open. In particular, Tioga Road through Yosemite is still open and it usually closes for the season around Thanksgiving. In fact, according to this document […]

January 5th, 2012 | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment
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