cyberhobo

Category: Outings

  • Wagon Wheel

    We had a nice little bouldering session with Ted & Greg, then stayed to watch Leonids by the rising full moon until Ann remembered she had left carrots in the oven. That inspired a hasty retreat home, where we found the smell of carmelizing vegetables wafting through the neighborhood.

  • Granite Knob

    We were going to meet Roy & others for climbing today, but he had family visiting and we ended up on our own again. We had already agreed on Granite Knob, so that’s where we headed. We warmed up on Nervous Tension (5.8 ), my first time leading it. It’s a good climb for getting…

  • Olancha Pass

    With the Subaru temporarily off the road, we were looking for hikes we could get to in Ann’s Volvo. The Olancha Pass trailhead turned out to be perfect, with Sage Flat road providing pavement most of the way. We hadn’t hiked in a while, and our distance estimates were a bit short. We started at…

  • Great Falls Basin

    On a whim, Ann and I took off late Saturday night for Great Falls Basin, where we slept under an amazing sky and woke up early to get a climb in. This route is one of my favorites, Frosted Flakes (5.9). It requires some uncertain smearing, a little edging, and has an easy dihedral at…

  • Williamson Rock

    I made my first trip to Williamson Rock in the San Gabriel mountains north of LA on Friday with Roy Boswell. It’s a pretty nice crag – I took the picture from the parking area across the valley. There are climbers on the first route we did, Being There (5.7), just left of the big…

  • Alabama Hills

    Getting out for a climb is a challenge in this heat, especially if you don’t have time to wind your way up high into the mountains. After hiding in the house during the day Saturday, we decided to see how the Alabama Hills felt. We left about 5:30pm, pulled into Lone Pine around 6:45, and…

  • Granite Knob

    It was one of those trips where we pack up the car, take off, and then decide to go somewhere else. We were headed for Alabama Hills, but I just couldn’t let the turnoff up 9-mile Canyon go by. So we went to Granite Knob, a somewhat remote, lush, meadowy spot in the northern Domelands.…

  • Good Life

    I was poking around a bit looking for pages on the Moon Goddess Arete, which Ted hiked to the base of over the weekend and is eager to climb, when I found this simple homepage, which struck me as an example of life lived well.

  • weekend encounters

    So far, resting the ankle has not made life dull. On the contrary, it’s brought some rewarding and unexpected experiences. This weekend’s encounters included new and strange wildflowers, a bear, and a sort of underground superhero.

  • The Beach

    I have now lived in southern california for a year and a half, and finally went to the beach. Ann and I pulled into Huntington Beach about noon with all rest of the beachgoers and fought for our parking spot in the midst of many driving maneuvers that were new to me. Walking down the…