SpicyGoliath

I made a quick / long jaunt out to the Sierras last weekend ending up pretty close to where I was camping earlier this year. The goal this time was quite different though, I was going to scale the mighty granite of Bear Creek Spire. My climbing partner for this particular adventure was a crazy […]

While celebrating our successful arrival at Flagstone almost two weeks ago we took bets on how many vehicles will be driving by the rv (parked on the edgy shoulder of a forest road) Mareli’s 3 cars a day made my 3 a week seem very conservative but as it turned out none came by during […]

My sister Mareli has been traveling through South America for the last 6 months. I met her and my parents - traveling from South Africa – in Los Angeles and brought them back to my campsite at the Owens Gorge. A family reunion in the Owens Valley! The last 10 days have been very busy. […]

Villager peak is much higher and tougher than it looks from below. Starting at 1:30 pm we did not have enough time to reach the peak before sunset and it took 30 minutes of cactus-avoiding-scrambling in the dark to locate a flat spot. With no tent we didn’t waste any time jumping in our down […]

After a week of camping in the Anza Borrego desert with 80 degree weather, we are finally cooling off with a little snow. The locals say they haven’t seen this much snow in 20 years. All of the surrounding mountains in the area are covered with a blanket of the white stuff. […]