Posted in Travel on Aug 26th, 2018
[photos: flickr – Yosemite] A couple of weeks ago a friend passing through Yosemite informed me the smoke had cleared up, highways and campgrounds were open again. In theory this meant there should be a lot of campsites available from to all the recent cancellations due to the park closure. I sat on this for […]
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Posted in Travel on Jun 28th, 2018
[photos: flickr – Eastern Sierra] [photos: flickr – Mono Lake] The Tioga pass through Yosemite finally opened up in the latter part of May, so I wanted to go check out things on the other side of the park. It’s a shortcut, otherwise I’d have to go up to Tahoe then head south, or down […]
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Posted in Travel on Sep 10th, 2017
[flickr: Hetch Hetchy trip] Ever since that One Time in 2005 in Colorado where a bear tried to nose their way into my friends’ tent at night while they were still inside, I’ve been leery about camping in the forest. Usually I don’t have a problem with wild critters, I’ve spent many nights in Death […]
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