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 […]

Now in Terrebonne Oregon, Mareli and I plan to do a lot of climbing at Smith Rock over the next couple of weeks. It is amazing how much snow is still on the cascade volcanoes compared to the even higher mountains just South in California. Oregon had a big winter season as is evident in […]

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 […]

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 […]