Giant Trees
July 7th, 2024A visit to the Tuolumne Giant Sequoia grove:
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July 5th, 2024
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Got the gear
June 29th, 2024
…for camping, bouldering, route climbing, day hiking, trail running, BACKPACKING! and epic banjo and guitar playing.
Now let’s rock this Tuolumne Meadows adventure!
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May 12th, 2024Place: The Grand Canyon
Adventure: South Rim to River to South Rim
Route:
Stats: 22 miles and ~5k feet elevation loss/gain in 10ish hours, including a lunch/water top-off stop at the river, another lunch stop at Indian Gardens and an ice cream stop at the South Rim 😁.
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Spring Blur
April 21st, 2024A quick recap of a jammed packed spring:
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And capping off our busy spring craziness:
Watch out summer, here we come.
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Yosemite, Again!
November 26th, 2023
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Birthday Boys
October 22nd, 202315 years ago and exactly one year before Silas was born, we celebrated Manu’s birthday with a hike up to Piute Pass fueled by Schat’s Bakery’s pullaway bread. This birthday celebration shared similar themes. Silas and Manu started the day opening presents in a lovely campground outside Bishop near the Buttermilk Boulders. We tore down camp, headed into town for gas, water and a mechanic to help figure out why the tire on our behemoth kept losing air. Next was a stop at Schat’s for pullaway bread, which Manu very heroically waited to tear into while we drove north and then west into Yosemite National Park via Tuolumne Meadows. The pullaway was devoured at Tenaya Lake. We then meandered our way down to The Valley, set up camp in Upper Pines, and then hiked over to Curry for pizza and beer. Too stuffed and tired, we decided to save the cake for breakfast the next morning.
Yes, the “hike” for pizza wasn’t quite on par with Piute Pass, but just you wait. More hiking (and then some!) to come on this trip… 😉
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Solar Eclipse in an Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
October 22nd, 2023East side of the Sierra Nevadas, California.
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No van, no worries!
October 22nd, 2023Van is in the shop for waaaaay longer than expected. The trip must go on!!!
will fit 4 people, 4 crashpads, a week’s worth of food and clothes, and all our totally not-optimized-for-car-camping camping gear (dumped directly from the van into this behemoth less than 12 hours before departure)
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City to Summit
October 13th, 2023The big event that Paul and Manu have been training for all summer has come: Trail running from the desert base of Mt. Lemmon (Tucson) to it’s mountain forest summit, a 20 mile endeavor with around 7,000 over 8,000 feet of elevation gain.
Well folks, mission accomplished. The boys crushed it.
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