-
Holiday snow outings
I’ve managed a few snow outings during the holidays. There hasn’t been an abundance of snow, but enough! The first was Chickadee ridge with Ann: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberhobo/16081556076/ A few laps on Tamarack peak on Christmas: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberhobo/15921265559/ And of course a visit to good old Incline peak with friends: Incline summit snackers Bluebird Tahoe Here’s hoping for…
-
Thanksrunning, Thanksclimbing
For better or worse, the weather in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California is even warmer than it was at Thanksgiving last year. Will climbing with warm sun on our skin here become a tradition? Gabe joins us this year and seems amenable. With a stop at Benton Hot Springs on the way down,…
-
Still warm in the Gorge
Gabe, Ann, and I found sun and fun in Owen’s River Gorge outside Bishop, California this weekend. Camping in the high piñons wasn’t always toasty warm, but the sun on the rock was perfection. I almost felt naughty sneaking in such a nice weekend in the middle of November. Climbing at Attila the Hun Wall…
-
Halloween Mountains and Masks
On Hallow’s Eve Ann and I make a brisk hike up the Jones/Whites creek ridge, then join some of our masked maker friends for a drink in at the Brasserie. Jones ridge view Warm Tea on Halloween Costumes at the Brasserie Costumes at the Brasserie
-
Virginia Peak Bush Whack and Road Hike
Continuing our efforts to visit obscure peaks, we give up on Clark Mountain after finding the easy access from the Reno-Tahoe Industrial Park prohibited. Instead we drive into the Pah Rah range, where we find a road leading up Virginia peak. Instead of driving we park and hike, doing some bush whacking and talking to…
-
Bald Mountain Hike
For our first outing in our new-to-us Subaru forester we make our way to Nye canyon in the Pine Grove Hills. We share this location with two bear hunters who stop their ATVs to chat with us as we hike up Bald Mountain. With only an affinity for obscure locations in common, we find ourselves…
-
Return to Mount Rose with Ann
Earlier this year Ann looked up at Mount Rose and realized for the first time that her physical state would not allow her to go there, and she wondered if it ever would again. Today we happily proved that it will. Though she is not free from pain, we’re both grateful that she can hike…
-
The many peaks of Dunderberg
We started up Dunderberg peak knowing full well that it has many false summits, and we still duped ourselves. It was a beautiful but long and rocky hike, during which we created many names for ourselves and everything around us in the form of Dunder-blank. Or maybe those names were mostly for me after I…
-
Wrights Lake / Pyramid Peak / Mt. Agassiz / Mt. Price Loop
Gabe suggested this outing, and by the end we were in agreement that this is the best ridge traverse either of us had done in the Tahoe area. Just spectacular. Cliffs below Pryamid Peak Gabe and I on Pyramid Peak Hiker checks out the edge Pryamid panorama Gabe, moon, Mt. Agassiz Ridge cliffs Gabe on…
-
Chased off by a bear
Let me dash any hopes for pictures right away – there is no photographic evidence of this, the first time a bear has run me out of a campsite. The signs were clear but odd. A big pile of less-than-two-day-old bear scat near our prospective tent site should have been enough, but we were tired.…