Attacking Sam Mack Meadow

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, […]

Off to Bishop for some hiking

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 […]

Vacation: Ash Creek Butte

The objective of the day was to summit Ash Creek Butte and find the geocache there. Our approach was off of highway 97 on Military Pass Road. This is the same road taken to access the trailheads up to the Mount Shasta glaciers. We had gone about a mile when we encountered U.S. Forest Service […]