A couple of weeks ago I was out on a long solo hike, thinking about interesting things I could do with content here at Calipidder.com. At the same time, I was taking mental notes about two pieces of Columbia gear I was testing out, hoping I wouldn’t forget things when I got home and had [...]
Tuesday night we settled in to our desert vacation home in southern Death Valley, planning on staying here through Sunday. Throughout the rest of the week our friends will roll in for a few days of hiking, peak bagging, and Thanksgiving festivities around the campfire. Our first hike, on Wednesday morning, was Jubilee Mountain, an [...]
On Monday morning we awoke to fresh snow covering the peaks that surround Eureka Valley. Clouds still hung around the ridges but they were slowly clearing out. While the guys picked up camp I took the opportunity to climb around the Eureka Dunes a bit. The overnight precip made the surface the perfect resistance for [...]
California is experiencing a seriously dry winter right now. I believe we had 3% of our normal December precip in San Jose. January has been completely dry. The mountain passes are still open (record setting dates) and there are only pitiful patches of snow from earlier small storms in the high country. Ski resorts aren’t [...]
After Rocky Mountain National Park we spent a few days in Boulder and Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. We spent a morning climbing at Flagstaff Mountain outside of Boulder, then headed to our hotel in Denver. The GABF festivities were in the afternoon and evening so Friday morning we decided to drive down [...]
Now that I’m back from my Thanksgiving Trip it’s time to get back to blogging about the previous trip! I need to catch up… We had set aside a couple of days to spend in Rocky Mountain National Park. The closest I’ve ever been to the Rockies is in an airplane so I was looking [...]
After much delay and anticipation I have finally found time to sit down and publish photos and some posts about our road trip to Colorado. We were on the road for seventeen days, leaving September 23 and returning to San Jose on October 9. The catalyst for this road trip was the Great American Beer [...]
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