I just wanted to sip my iced tea by the creek and enjoy the delicious Keto Spinach Salad I brought for my lunch. I wanted to swim with my pup in the cold creek waters and have a zen-like escape from this insane heatwave the mountains of southern California have been smothered in for ten …
Month: July 2024
I live and work and hike in a national forest. It’s a quiet place away from the crime and the urban jungle of the cities near Los Angeles below this alpine mountain town. It can feel worlds away from the stress and suburbia of the busy hell holes of the cities down below. We don’t …
As a always hungry foodie summertime can be a frustrating season. Man, I could go for a hot slice of cornbread with honey right now. But alas I won’t be baking cornbread until the fall when I get brave enough to turn my oven on again. The dog days of summer are not a great …
What a beautiful Big Bear day to go for a “Moderate” hike! And when you are training to summit the Big W (Mt Whitney) moderate might mean an eight-mile hike with close to 3,000 feet of altitude gain! On this Wednesday, it was time for yet another Mt Whitney training hike. Mt Whitney is the …
If you want to go to a place to resurrect your life and feel a-new again then the Eastern Sierra Mountains are that place. The jagged peaks and stunning wilderness Ansel Adams photographed and John Muir wrote essays about have a special place in my heart. I spend as much time as I can every …