It’s the end of August, and I spent 3 days camping at Jackson Meadows, again. This time I had the entire camp loop to myself. Just me and Ben this time since Biggs had stitches that did not need to get in the dirt. I caught 6 trout, kept the Read More
The annual “birthday climb” of Fall Creek Mountain, over by Feeley and Carr lakes, happened this year on 8/23. We had ten participants, and everyone made it to the top followed by a refreshing swim in Island Lake afterwards. Along with Kate and I, we had Stephen & Janelle, Read More
Jackson Meadows Reservoir was once again a great trip. Met up with my buddy Gary Goldsmith who taught me how to do night sky photography. The Perseid Meteor shower was going on and I got up at 3am to try and shoot it. Quite hard to do since the shooting Read More
Our second trip to Loon Lake this year, back in my old campsite #17. Parked right next to us were our friends Gary and Cheryl Goldsmith, in #15, along with their pup, Benatar. Weather was delightful this time with lows at nite around 48 and days mid to high 70s. Read More
Our first campout this year at Loon Lake, and due to the drought we found it to be at the 50% level. Highly unusual since this lake, on opening day is usually full to the tree line. Apparently the powers that be decided to dump half of it into Union Read More
On Fathers Day, Kate, Ben and I started our project of hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail, which is 165 miles. Doing it piece by piece in day hikes only. We started on the trail where it intersected Ward Creek Blvd just south of Tahoe City a mile or two, in Read More
June 7 -10th. Jackson Meadows second trip this year. This time I was in site #30. An awesome view, nicely private (thats why it’s called the honeymoon site), plenty of shade where you want it and sun where you need it for the solar panels. But … a pretty steep hike down Read More
Wouldn’t ya know we have another terrible drought year with nil rain all winter, but when it does rain, its on the Memorial Day weekend. My first campout this year. Oh well, I love weather anyway. I find it fascinating. Plus it really only rained a lot on the first Read More
In March, Kate and I took off for a couple days stay at the Beachcomber Motel in Ft. Bragg. The winter of 2015 has been the driest ever, but the forecast for “our” few days was rain, so we left our bikes and the dogs at home. Other than driving Read More
On Pi day, 3/14/15 Kate and I hiked to the Emerald Pools on the Yuba River, off the Bowman Lake Rd, with Janelle and Stephen. The weather was high 60s, but because of the drought the river was much lower than normally would be at this time. Plus there normally Read More