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Don Pedro Overlook Trail, Red Hills: Old Gravel Roads, Wildflowers, and Dam Views

Apr 1, ’17 · by Denise · in On Adventures

I went for a wildflower trail jog in the Red Hills after work yesterday… isn’t spring great? I am never going back to the sun setting before 7pm! (Once I figure out how to control that, of course.) Yesterday’s hike was the first time I have started from the trailhead off of Old Don Pedro Rd. Typical I have come in from the Red Hills Rd parking area, or pull…

Table Mountain: It is a Wildflower Mountain!

Table Mountain: It is a Wildflower Mountain!

Apr 20, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

It’s wildflower time! Usually, if I’m looking for a quick local hike I will just hit up the Red Hills, because the Red Hills are kinda where it is at. Instead, this year Curtis and I decided hiking wildflower hills was just so pedestrian. Nope, we were headed to a WILDFLOWER MOUNTAIN. Honestly, I think the Red Hills might have a greater flower diversity… but Table Mountain more than makes up…

Backpacking Glen Camp Point Reyes

Backpacking Glen Camp, Point Reyes – Everything is Damp (thanks ocean)

May 2, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Not only was my trip to Glen camp my first backpacking trip of 2014, but it is now my earliest backpacking trip done ever in the year!  Starting out strong, 2014!  Of course that meant it was consistently raining on the first day of the two day trip…. but considering I can not remember a single time it has rained on me while backpacking in California, I can’t really complain….

Steep Ravine, Mt Tam Camping

Steep Ravine Camping – My Favorite Campsite in California???

Apr 30, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Last weekend I took a trip to the coast, North Bay Area, following a short work stop for Curtis in the bay area …Did you know the California regional forest service office  is located on a strange abandoned navel island? Neither did we… Anyhow, it was an extended weekend of wet camping, wet backpacking, and then ‘I can’t bear to be wet at a KOA next to a dozen screaming kids…

Hite Cove: California Wildflowers with Ruins

Hite Cove: California Wildflowers with a Side of Ruins

Mar 26, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

Guess what season it is? … California Poppy Season! Last weekend’s arrival of California’s poppies swept aside any previous hiking plans (Sorry Little Nellie Falls, check you latter) and instead filled my head with visions of hiking in sandals through fields tinged with orange. And not just any trail would do – this year I was going to get to Hite Cove, damn it! Hite Cove Distance: 9-ish mile out…

International Peace Garden

International Peace Garden, ND – Throwback Thursday

Mar 20, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures

The other day my prized “Why Not Minot” shot glass, a funny parody of the North Dakota city sold to me be the Minot Scandinavian center, broke in a tragic cleaning accident. I doubt the shot glass in still available in the Minot Scandinavian center, of which my mind has concocted a story of a witty scandinavian making (in good humor) the shot glass only to be lectured by the Minot chamber…

Kiwanis Monument

Kiwanis Monument – Oscoda, Michigan

Jun 10, ’13 · by Denise · in On Adventures

I am back in California now, but before I return to blogging about life in the Sierra I wanted to share this Kiwanis monument located by Oscoda, MI. I have visited this monument previously with my family, but probably not since before college. In college I became a member of the Kiwanis, specifically the Circle K. Through Kiwanis and Circle K I met some amazing people, built some sweet snow…

Redhills Monkeyflower

Red Hills Wildflower Hike

Apr 10, ’13 · by Denise · in On Adventures

This is the best time of  year to drive Highway 120 up to Groveland – green hillsides thanks to the recent rain and, as I noticed on my last drive down to Sonora, wildflowers lining the roadsides. On my drive I pass Chinese Camp, the very small town that is the portal to the BLM Area of Environmental Concern: The Red Hills, which I had recently blogged about this presidents day. Other than…

Hiking the Merced River Canyon - with a pup!

Hiking the Merced River Canyon – with a pup!

Apr 3, ’13 · by Denise · in On Adventures, Yosemite Day Hike

Trailhead: West of El Portal take the Foresta Rd bridge over the Merced, then immediatly turn left onto Incline Road. The narrow Incline road goes past many nice looking forest service campsites, then turns to gravel before you reach a gate. Park here and start hiking past the gate.
Distance: About 4.5 miles out and back (2.25 miles each way).  The trail is really a service road that runs parallel to the North side of the river, which ends at  where Hwy 140 crosses the North side Merced to via a small aluminum bridge to avoid a landslide that happened a few years back.

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