Panoche Hills, Bureau of Land Management
Trip Date: March 28, 2019
This was the 4th consecutive weekend, every weekend in March, I was gone somewhere. Kristen and I went to San Diego for the first one, Mike and I went to the property for the second one, we were in the Mojave last weekend, and this was Rhino and Kevin’s retirement gathering. Reinhard, Kevin, Tom, Mike,…
Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park
Trip Date: January 28, 2019
2019 it is; holy fuck. This is perhaps our fourth consecutive January trip; first heading out to Carrizo Plain, then the Panamints, a bit South of Saline, then 2 consecutive jaunts into the Mojave. We will return to the Mojave in a couple months but we want to get up into the New York Mountains…
Obsidian Trip; Inyo National Forest
Above 7000 Feet, Forest, Hot Springs, Mountains, National Forest land, National Monument, National Park, River, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: September 20, 2018
I don’t know why this is called the Obsidian trip and I am writing this story 4 years after the trip so all I have to go on are the photos. I don’t see any Obsidian in them and I don’t know why we wouldn’t have camped closer to the Obsidian, or right at it…
Island Park, Idaho, Family Trip
Forest, Hot Springs, Lake/Reservoir, Mountains, National Park, River, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: June 9, 2018
This is another trip that I didn’t write the story for until some 4 years later. That’s how it goes. Sometimes we travel a lot, or the trips are somewhat close together and I don’t get to the story writing right away and then a couple more trips happen, and then they just get left…
Valley of Fire State Park, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Desert, Hot Springs, Mountains, National Conservation Area, Star Gazing, State/Regional Park, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: March 23, 2018
Just outside Vegas, within an hour to the North, East, and West (and South probably too) is some spectacular country. I assume people know about it, certainly the locals, but of course that is not the Vegas you hear about from people going to Vegas. So, yes, I do understand I didn’t camp in Vegas,…
Black Rock Desert, Bureau of Land Management
Trip Date: May 11, 2017
We have been to the Black Rock Desert in Northwestern Nevada a number of times over the past 20 years or so and have always camped at the same spot. It is an extraordinary spot, high above the playa, almost directly opposite the “Black Rock” for which the area is named, and 20 miles or…