This is a continuation of my Timberline Trail trip report, covering Cairn Basin to Tilly Jane Campground in a clockwise direction. To start from the beginning, including information about the…
Last year at this time I had already practically worn out my skis, but La Nina has yet to show her face this winter in Central Oregon. However, one of…
Stacker Butte is in Washington's Columbia Hills State Park and offers a great spring wildflower viewing opportunity. Although this is a relatively unexciting road hike, doing it at the right…
During my whirlwind trip to London, I managed to fit in quite a lot of sightseeing in one day. But as they say on the infomercials, "but wait, there's more!"…
Thanks to work obligations, I recently had the opportunity to travel to England for the first time. And when you spend that amount of time on a plane, you extend the…
Everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area knows Mt Umunhum, even if they don’t know its name. The large concrete box that sits atop the summit was one the base of a Coastal Defense Radar at the Almaden Air Force Station. Visible from all over the Bay Area, the “Cube” has been a landmark since the base opened in 1958.
This weekend I had the opportunity to visit the closed summit with the Umunhum Conservancy. Not only did I get a close look at the Cube, I got a peek at what is coming when the site opens to the public later this fall. There is still a lot of construction work to do, but the end is in sight!
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About two years ago I was browsing through a desert trip report website and came across a beautiful rock art site in Mojave National Preserve. Called Counsel Rocks, I decided…
Last weekend was my birthday, and as usual, I was suffering from a head cold. That seems to happen every year. I had made a half-effort to plan an outing…
If there is one way to get me to visit touristy spots in the Bay Area, it's to get family to visit. I didn't visit Alcatraz, ride the Cable Cars,…