We made a group “early season” backpacking trip to Chilnualna Falls in SE Yosemite in early June. Our destination above the falls was around 6,200′ if memory serves, and most of the snow had melted at that elevation. The river and falls were still raging from the runoff at the higher elevations, which was very […]

Wow, the most-overdue 12 of 12 yet… Sorry about that. July was even worse, when I forgot 12 of 12 entirely! It was a busy month, though mostly in good ways. As noted on the gallery index page, this was a challenging 12 of 12 from a philosophical point of view. How does one create […]

Hooray, I can check off another overdue “to do” list item: this post and the associated gallery! For the last few years we’d introduced Allison to camping by doing overnighters at Grant Ranch during Independence Day weekend. This year we wanted to attend our annual block party again, and while I enjoy camping at Grant, […]

Time to catch up on an overdue update or three! Starting with this one. Stacey and Ron invited a bunch of people to go backpacking at Sword Lake in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness (in the Sierra Nevada) last weekend. The group consisted of them and their daughter Kara; Steve and his daughter Julia; Antony and his […]