Snowcamping, Yosemite, and friends. What better way to start the new year? We drove out to Wawona on New Year’s Eve to meet a bunch of friends at the group campground. After celebrating the new year with a warm campfire, cheap champagne, and lots of laughs, we got a good night of sleep before heading [...]
We seem to be on the right track for snowcamping this year. Two years ago it stormed every time we tried to get out. Last year there was just no snow. This year we’ve already gotten out on two great overnights. This past weekend we headed into a classic California snowshoe destination: Dewey Point in [...]

To put it mildly, last winter’s minimal snowfall was dissapointing. We only got out on one snowcamping outing, and there was so little snow that we were able to have a campfire in a ring that was melted out. We’re now officially ahead of last winter’s snow tally by getting out for an overnight snowshoe [...]
David and I spent the weekend up in Eldorado National Forest near Lake Tahoe. Our mission was twofold: do some snowshoeing, and get some firewood. After picking up the woodcutting permit and getting our 2007 fire permits (always good to pick those up early, instead of worrying about it later in the summer), we drove [...]
After an entire season of bad weather snowcamping, we finally got out on the snow this weekend when the sun was shining. Mtnsteve organized a Full Moon trip in Lassen through TrailTalk/Nothern CA hikers. He had a perfect campsite picked out on a ridge rising out of the Devastated Area and up toward Lassen Peak. [...]

I am woefully out of date in updating this website. Today (May 7) I’m finally getting around to posting some photos from a ski trip two weeks ago. We went to Yosemite and skied in along Glacier Point road to McGurk meadow, where we stayed up chatting in our snow kitchen in the true Northern [...]
We spent last weekend among the giant sequoia trees of Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Saturday was cold and rainy/snowy, so we set up camp and took a short walk through the North Grove. We then warmed up in the visitor center while watching a slide show about the history of the trees. When they [...]


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