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Yosemite Backpacking to Kibbie Lake

Kibbie Lake, Yosemite: Early Summer & Full Moon Backpacking

Apr 26, ’20 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Happy National Parks Week! Yosemite National Park is currently closed help stop the spread of COVID-19. The whole situation is a bummer, but that does allow more time to look at old photos and plan future trips. To be honest: Yes, I have canceled multiple trips because of the quarantine orders. Even some of the local hikes I was looking forward to are now off the table because the Stanislaus…

California Backpacking :: Point Reyes National Seashore Lake Ranch and Coast Trail Loop

Point Reyes Backpacking the Southern Loop to Glen Camp: Lake Ranch and Coast Trail

May 26, ’19 · by Denise · in On Adventures

I’ve been lucky in reserving last minute backpacking permits in Point Reyes during weekends forecasted to be rainy and miserable. Both times the permit was for Glen Camp.  I think of Glen Camp as one of the less mysterious and alluring sounding camps in along the National Seashore (I’m looking at you “Sky” and “Coast” camps). To be fair, Curtis argues these names are more lazy than mysterious… but then…

Backpacking Parker Pass, Yosemite

Backpacking Parker Pass, Yosemite

Aug 28, ’18 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Parker Pass is an amazing little backpacking trip to keep in your back pocket for an open weekend – awesome AND doable without much planning.  I have a couple of these just-in-case trips that are short distance, on trail, and generally not overwhelming. Short and sweet, but deliver some much needed wilderness time. I would consider Parker Pass the sister to the much more popular Mono Pass trip. Also an…

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….

Snowshoeing to a Frozen Tokopah Falls, Sequoia National Park

Snowshoeing to a Frozen Tokopah Falls, Sequoia National Park

Feb 22, ’16 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Hiking guides for popular trails rarely have give a good impression of what you will find in the winter. For example, I just typed in “Tokopah Falls Winter” into Google image search, and that 5th image is not really winter. Pah-lease, Google. And forget about it when looking for postcards: As you can see, Tokopah Falls in the summertime looks like a familiar Sierra Nevada cascading fall tumbling down granite –…

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…

Winter Camping in Sequoia National Park

Winter Camping in Sequoia National Park

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

This year Curtis and I made our thanksgiving feast in a dutch oven, over a campfire, surrounded by snow, in Sequoia National Park. Last summer we bought the ‘America the Beautiful’ all national parks annual pass, instead of the plain old Yosemite annual pass. Yosemite had upped their fees for the annual pass, so it was only a $20 difference – and great motivation to visit a laundry list of the…

Backpacking Molybdenite Creek

Backpacking Molybdenite Creek: eastern sierra fall colors you don’t have to share

Oct 10, ’14 · by Denise · in On Adventures

Fall colors – they happen every year but they don’t get any less magical. Colors in California can’t ever compare to my favorite displays in Michigan (I’m looking at you Brockway Mountain), but those yellow and orange aspen littering the hillsides are really growing on me. Actually it’s a sort of poetic how the summer season is greeted sunny poppies and then adjourned with the fiery aspen, full circle. Right now…

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