Drive #21: USFS Roads to Cascade Head Date Driven: 11/22/11 Length: 9.8 miles My Drive Time: 45 minutes (excluding my hike to Cascade Head and back) Start: Highway 101 and Cascade Head Rd./NF-1861, N45º 03.945′ W123º 56.906′ End: Same GPS Track: GPX or KMZ format. (right click -> Save As) Source(s): These short access roads […]

Drive #17: GBES Pine Nut Mountains Loop Date Driven: 6/17/06 Length: 78 miles My Drive Time: We were there for 6 hours 50 minutes, but with many stops as part of the rally. Start: E. Valley Rd. and a dirt road, N38º 58.550′ W119º 42.190′ End: Pinenut Rd. and Hwy. 395,N38º 54.947′ W119º 42.945′ GPS […]

This year’s Hollister Hills GeoBash II was very similar to last year’s event. The main difference being that Sam and I didn’t need to get winched back onto the trails this time. I’d enjoyed last year’s inaugural event – other than the whole almost-rolling-backwards-down-a-steep-hillside thing – so I’d been looking forward to the sequel event. […]

So there I was, relaxing at our campsite at Mountain Rendezvous 2012, chatting with Astrid of Overland Nomads. We were kicking back and talking about interesting places, or hotels, or the northern California area, or something to that effect. Or, more likely, all of the above and then some. Anyway, somehow I ended up mentioning […]