This winter turned out to be a very good year for precipitation in the state of California, as experts working with the California Department of Water Resources kind of predicted last fall. This means that right now, in July of 2019, the John Muir Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail through the High Sierra fromContinue reading “High Sierra PCT under snow in 2019”
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The Sierra Club High Trips and why women liked them
In the High Trips, for about thirty years at the start of the 20th century, the Sierra Club as a mountaineering club peaked, surely. On those brilliantly organized journeys, as many as 200 people at time went into the High Sierras, having committed to a walk of a minimum of two hundred miles, over several weeks of hiking. Though theContinue reading “The Sierra Club High Trips and why women liked them”
Dawn comes to Rae Lakes
Fin Dome over Rae Lakes: Rae Lakes are one of the most accessible of the glacial High Sierra lake chains, so this is a sight many early rising many visitors have seen…blessedly. [Photo via a National Park Service contest on fb, by winner Matt Cooper.]
Kit Stolz 