Glenn County High Point

Track followed

It turns out that on my last trip into the Mendocino National Forest west of Orland, I didn’t go far enough west to find a geocache on page 65 of the Northern California Delorme map. I remedied that today with a fun trip into the remote parts of Mendocino National Forest. My […]

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, […]