Calipidder

I’ve been meaning to visit Cerro Gordo for a long time and it was with great excitement that we turned up the dreaded road on Saturday afternoon. I have heard that the road condition is anywhere from an easy Sunday drive to a 4WD nightmare. Truthfully, the answer lies somewhere in between, depending on the [...]

We left Palm Springs on Christmas morning, ready to head back out to the desert for some hiking. Unfortunately, the weather was not cooporating and most of the surrounding ranges were completely socked in. That, combined with the ridiculous wind forecast, had me rather disappointed as we worked our way down highway 10 towards the [...]

On December 26 we awoke to the coldest morning of our trip. It was in the mid 20s and the wind, though it had died down from the previous night, was still gusting pretty good. After packing up camp and sucking down some hot coffee, we headed towards our target of the day, Queen Mountain.
Queen [...]

As part of our trip to the desert we decided to join the Southern California 4×4 Geocachers on a run. The target was the Dale Mining District, just north of Joshua Tree, and the run was suitable for our stock 4×4 (though it pushed its limits at times!) The district has a huge number of [...]

Instead of flying to Michigan this year to see our families, David and I stuck around California for the holidays. We both missed our families, but it was such a relief to not pay ridiculous amounts of money to be incredibly inconvenienced and probably stranded in Chicago or Denver or some place that was neither [...]