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The Owens Valley is notorious for strong winds which are evident in the formation of the ‘Bishop Wave’ that regularly adorn the skies around here. These mountain wave clouds or ‘Foehn waves’ as they are called in other parts of the world are quite often used by sailplane pilots to set long distance speed […]

I love the Owens Valley. With a view like this… how can you not? Sitting up in bed with a cup of coffee the view includes Mt. Langley, Mt. Muir, Mt. Whitney, Mt. Russell, Mt Williamson and numerous couloirs drenched in snow. After my terrible camping experience last week in Pismo Beach (read: neighbors […]

With Ketchum still surrounded by smoke, the hills of Galena have become our entertainment. Galena Lodge is the only form of civilization out here and it is just a few miles down the road from us. They have a restaurant, bike shop, horse rides, and miles of hiking and biking trails from their […]

The last couple of days were real tough Each morning I found myself trying to decide how to best use the perfect weather we’ve been having. The decision was usually between backcountry skiing in the Sierras or paragliding on the White Mountains but with flying being my favorite hobby it came out […]

With the series of storms moving through it was tough to find a gap with good ski weather so we ended up doing a short day trip from South Lake near Bishop. The road is open all the way to the South Lake TH from where we skinned / snow shoed around the lake and […]