
Table Mountain Hike
Trip Date: March 7, 2025
I love Craig’s List and I love the “Free Stuff” most. I have to agree it is one of my hobbies and so when I saw an ad for free red lava rock in Oroville, I thought why not. If it worked, I would get free red lava rock that I needed to finish the…

Oregon Coast 4
Creek/River, Forest, Lake/Reservoir, Mountains, National Forest land, National Monument, National Park, Ocean, River, Wildlife
Trip Date: September 20, 2021
I believe this was our 4th trip up the Oregon Coast in 4 successive years (except last year because we went to Death Valley with Haley and Brett to look at a possible wedding venue), if you count the first trip, which was technically to Jedediah Smith State Park, but we did cross the border…

Jenner for Kristen’s Birthday
Trip Date: June 26, 2020
This may be a brief story, or not, as it is being written in late October, so details may be sparse. Thank god for my pictures as they definitely help recreate the stories. We had been in lock down, in fear, in this weirdness that was the early stages of the pandemic. Little did we…

Camp Far West Reservoir, South Sutter Water District
Trip Date: February 29, 2020
OK, too much time has passed between this trip and my ability to recall many details, and the trip didn’t technically occur on February 29, but how many times can you even do anything on February 29, so I am taking certain liberties with the entry, per usual. There was a plot to get back…

Oregon Coast III
Trip Date: October 13, 2019
This was the third consecutive trip up the coast for us. We started 2 years back with a stay at Jedediah Smith State Park at the northern edge of California, then the following year we explored from the border to Bandon on the Coquille River. This year, we wanted to go back to Bandon and…

Burnside Lake, El Dorado National Forest
Above 7000 Feet, Creek/River, Forest, Lake/Reservoir, Mountains, National Forest land, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers
Trip Date: July 10, 2019
We had decided to get up to the high elevations and camp out of the canoes as a practice run for a possible future boat camp trip to Lake Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park. Bob, Mike, Steve, and I headed up to Lower Sunset Lake, just outside the Mokelumne Wilderness at about 8,000’ elevation. I…