Snowshoeing to a Frozen Tokopah Falls, Sequoia National Park

Snowshoeing to a Frozen Tokopah Falls, Sequoia National Park

Feb 22, ’16 · by · 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 –…

Moro Rock Winter 2015, Sequoia National Park

Hiking out to an Icy Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park

Feb 7, ’16 · by · in On Adventures

Wintertime weather in the Sequoia Giant Forest followed this pattern when we visited: A beautiful clear morning, followed by an afternoon snowstorm (complete with a gray fog obscuring any distant vista), and then the snow would slowly peter out, the clouds breaking in the middle of the night to allow all the warmer air to float away – leaving us with a frigid night under the stars. Curtis and I…

Winter Camping in Sequoia National Park

Winter Camping in Sequoia National Park

Jan 12, ’16 · by · 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…