I used to love this town and this mountain and this alpine village of ours under the Jeffrey pines. But that was before the global pandemic ruined the town of Big Bear Lake. That was way before all this completely normal to us locals now in 2022, Big Bear Lake short-term rental drama. Maybe I …
Summiting Mt Whitney is one of my all-time favorite treks into the eastern Sierra wilderness. It’s difficult, it’s rewarding and sometimes it requires you to poo in a wagbag and carry out your waste. Summiting this gorgeous fourteen hundred foot mountain is not every hiker’s cup of tea (Or pouch of GU if you are …
It’s just barely March and I am already dreaming of fourteeners. One California snowy fourteener in particular. Yes, every winter in our household we start daydreaming about hot summer days in the eastern sierras and summiting Mt Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States. I live in sunny southern California in a rural …
I just wanted to be nice to the old lady. Call it senior citizen day, call it Happy Old Bitch Day, I honestly don’t care what you call it but I thought I would be a sweet heart and take the old lady for a swim at Lake Powell. It was 106 degrees at 7 in …
“Ninety two switch backs on Mt Whitney, ninety-two switchbacks! You hike up one, you’re calves ache, ninety-one switch backs on Mt Whitney” Two years ago was my first ascent of Mt Whitney, my first hike over 12,000 feet and my first over twenty miler. As I raced up the ninety-nine switchbacks of Mt Whitney, practically …