Calipidder

For the first seven years I lived in California I always flew back to Michigan to visit my family at Christmas. Each year I would inevitably face midwest snowstorms, holiday travel crowds, cancelled flights, etc. But it was always worth it to visit my family.
Last year was the first year I skipped the holiday travel [...]

Happy fall! Up until Saturday, I was still functioning in 100% summer mode - summer can’t quite possibly be over, right? Although I wasn’t really ready for it, on Friday we hopped in the truck and headed out to 395 to check out the colors. It was absolutely glorious and I insist that you [...]

This past weekend I got to tag along on a four day outing to the Eastern Sierra. This trip differed from my usual hiking adventures - it was with the Geocachers of the Bay Area 4×4 group and organized by bthomas, a cacher, hiker, and 4×4er.
The trip started off Thursday morning with Motorbug and [...]

Dave finally got me out to the Sierra to share one of his favorite outdoor obsessions (among many): fishing.  We originally planned to head out to the East Sierra about three weeks ago to take in the fall colors along with the fishing, but Mother Nature had other plans, closing the passes with small snow [...]

Thursday night we drove out to the Eastern Sierra to meet a group of people from thebackpacker.com trail talk to enjoy the fall colors and some late season hiking. Photos are here: Fall Colors.