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Backpacking El Capitan: Iconic Yosemite National Park

Backpacking El Capitan: Iconic Yosemite National Park

Jun 30, ’18 · by Denise · in On Adventures

I summited El Cap, Yosemite’s famous granite monolith, without learning to climb. Admittedly, backpacking El Capitan is not as epic of a story as ascending the nose. But, it is undeniably an awesome 3 day backpacking trip in Yosemite. + Bonus points are awarded if you run into a real climber (we didn’t). Curtis and I hiked El Capitan as a 24 mile out and back from the Old Big…

Dewey Point, Yosemite: Get Stuck Winter Camping Here

Dewey Point, Yosemite: Get Stuck Winter Camping Here

Feb 21, ’17 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Contemplating a wintertime Yosemite visit? Mark my words: Someone is bound to get stuck in the snow. For example, while driving into and out of Badger Pass there is always more then one vehicle slammed into a snow bank. I could feel our car shift and try to fishtail as we approached the many shadowed portions along the road. With luck and an abundance of caution we made it safely…

Baboon Lakes, CA

Baboon Lakes, John Muir Wilderness: Rugged Glacier Carved Backpacking

Nov 21, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Thank you, glaciers. Curtis attended a lecture detailing new dating techniques used on Sierra Nevada alpine glaciers a couple of weeks after our backpacking trip to Baboon Lakes. He reported back that Baboon Lakes was featured on one the slides as an example of glacier carved beauty. Well yes, of course. Although evidence of glaciers surround you in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it is too easy to forget to say…

Kerrick Meadow, Yosemite

Backpacking Kerrick Meadow, Yosemite & Peeler Lake: Days 2 & 3 of Independence Day 2016 Trip

Aug 4, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

If Kerrick Meadows is the Northern Sister to Tuolumne Meadows, then Peeler Lake is Cathedral Lake’s Northern cousin. It is a really nice lake, the approach from the meadows has deep drop offs from the granite boulders with crystal clear waters

Backpacking Crown Lake: Herbert Hoover and Day 1 of Independence Day 2016 Trip

Backpacking Crown Lake: Herbert Hoover and Day 1 of Independence Day 2016 Trip

Jul 31, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Fourth of July 2016: Another Independence Day and another backpacking trip into the Hoover Wilderness on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. But of course, on one of the busiest backpacking weekends in the Sierra Nevada we returned to the place where wilderness permits are moderately easy to obtain. But maybe, perhaps subconsciously, I was also returning on the 4th of July to the wilderness named after the 31st president of the United States….

Backpacking Aloha Lake: Moonlight, Alien lore, and Unexpected Snow

Backpacking Aloha Lake: Moonlight, Alien lore, and Unexpected Snow

Jul 19, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

“Moonlight backpacking,” this was Trail’s next big idea. We were just settling in at Track 7 Brewery for some goodness and burritos when she pulled out the moon cycle calendar on her phone… When was the next upcoming full moon? Where can we get moonlight reflecting granite? You available? This is how Trails, Route, Curtis, and I ended up hiking out to the Aloha Lake region of the Desolation Wilderness between the…

Westfall Meadow: Easy Winter Yosemite Backpacking

Westfall Meadow: Easy Winter Yosemite Backpacking

Apr 12, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

While laying in our yellow slug winter tent, in the impossible quiet of the dark Yosemite forest, the question arose: When was the last time we actually backpacked in Yosemite? It was only last spring (2015), when Curtis and I backpacked to Styx Pass and Boundary Lake – an area straddling the Yosemite Wilderness and the Stanislaus Emigrant Wilderness. But does that count since we were able to get our permits from…

Bright Dot Lake

A Bright Dot Lake among Sierra Peaks, Backpacking Inyo Forest

Feb 10, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Most of my pictures in the High Sierra focus around two opposites, a rocky peak or a watery blue lake (except, maybe, for the hundreds of photos of rock piles that may, if you look hard enough, have a pika in them). The side trip Curtis, Trails (& pup) and I took from our backpacking camp at Mildred Lake to Bright Dot Lake highlighted this even more. Bright Dot is a lake…

Backpacking Lake Mildred

Remember that time we backpacked to Mildred and Genevieve Lakes?

Feb 3, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

There is quite a few trips from this past summer that for one reason or another I wasn’t able to blog about when it was fresh in my mind. Luckily, that usually that means I must have been prioritizing something else that was pretty cool, probably ecoSUMMIT or attending a wedding. But now in the heart of winter, denied of that thin alpine air, I am ‘wistfully’ looking organizing these…

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