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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

My fly fishing attempt on the Green was less than spectacular. This had nothing to do with the huge fish that kept leaping over my fishing rod but more with my lack of mimicking-a-helpless-bug-floating-in-the-current skills. I do have pictures to prove that I am not completely useless and I hope to improve on my next […]

Late yesterday evening I arrived in the Painted Canyon of the Mecca Hills. These soft muddy hills and canyons were formed by the movements of the San Andreas Fault. I expected it to be a quite busy but there were few signs of life around so I found myself a nice hidden spot behind a […]