Calipidder

August is prime Sierra season so I’ve spent more time in the mountains than on my computer lately (yay!). And I’m turning around and heading back out to do a few peaks over Labor Day weekend. In other words, it’s gonna be a long wait for more trip reports and photos. BUT, I did take [...]

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 in [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been on the road for most of the past month, first traveling to Germany for work and then, after a short 48 hour turnaround time back in California, on to Michigan to visit the family and hang out on the beach. I’ll be returning to my backpacking ways this coming weekend, but in the [...]

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 [...]