Kirsten over at Green Girl sent me the most wonderful poem this week. It was written by the early-20th-century poet René Daumal and is titled simply Poem. I want to print this out and have it next to me at all times. René Daumal: Poem One cannot stay on the summit forever – One has to come [...]
I planned on nightly blogging from the outdoor retailer show but that is looking less likely due to the failure of wifi availability in salt lake city. My hotel is supposed to have wifi but they are overwhelmed with demand and no one can connect. I tried three other places tonight and it was the [...]
Or, where the heck have I been? I didn’t fall off a mountain somewhere. I’ve been out having fun and being generally too overwhelmed (in a good way) to keep up with my latest trips here on Calipidder, but I hope to remedy that shortly. I’ll be posting a few hike descriptions from our Thanksgiving [...]
I usually spend most of August on the trail in the Sierra, but I had a random unplanned weekend and decided to save some driving time and catch up on work at home. Well, I should have used it to catch up on busywork at home, but this cool summer day sure seemed like a [...]
If you’re not a regular viewer of the Yosemite Nature Notes videos, get yourself over to Yosemite’s website and catch up. More views for them means continued funding, and I don’t know about you, but I love these videos and want to see more. The latest episode is about the Frazil Ice phenomenon that happens [...]
I know it’s been really quiet around here, but it is Sierra backpacking season and I’m spending most of my time packing, hiking, unpacking, and sorting through photos. I just spent five days exploring the trail between Tuolumne Meadows and Mammoth and will be posting the trip reports and pictures from those days shortly. I [...]
This video has been making its way through the Twitterverse and Blogosphere lately, and it’s just too good to not share. It is a black and white tourism video for Yosemite from the early 1940s. Make sure to watch the ancestors of today’s valley bears getting fed by the tourists. The winter sleigh ride through [...]
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