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…
Monitor Pass at the Saddle; In Memory of Jeff and Bob
Trip Date: May 26, 2020
It hadn’t been too long since our friend Jeff Hunts had passed away and the family did not do a ceremony, at least not that I heard about. Ken wanted to do something for him and so it was decided we should head up to Monitor to celebrate his life and our small part of…
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…
Hart Hill Trips; Many Firsts
Trip Date: June 3, 2019
I know I saw the listing on Realtor.com, Zillow, or on one of the many individual/independent realtor listings I was searching and passed over it during the couple months of searching I had done. In my mind, it was $89,000 and although I remembered it being a big piece of land, it didn’t really catch…
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…