I absolutely adore life here in Big Bear Lake. We have pine trees, mountain lakes, bald eagles, wild donkeys, snowstorms and just enough small-town drama to keep the local Facebook groups entertaining. But every now and then, even a mountain girl gets the urge to leave town and go explore someplace new. Ideally, that someplace …
I didn’t drive all the way to the South-Eastern Sierras to f*** around with rattlesnakes. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some springtime, wildflowers, days relaxing on our boat with a good book and of course, hiking through fields of grape soda lupine and cherry red king cup Cactus. Springtime warm weather means the …
In our small mountain town, the Pacific Crest Trail hikers are a welcome sight in the springtime. (Even if that one I just picked up hitchhiking through Big Bear Lake was a stinky sweaty mess) It might look like our small resort town has been overrun by bearded hippies wearing North Face puffy down jacket …
I had been hiking straight up a mountain since just before dawn when I came across Dry Lake at just over nine thousand feet. Trekking through a foot of snow for the last two hours had been rough and my calves and hamstrings were on fire as I finally took a break to catch my …
Two months ago I was bunkered down in an apartment in Bangalore as torrential rains flooded the cow shit filled streets. I was a long way from Baldwin Lake, California.We did not leave the apartment for two days because it was raining sideways, harder than I had ever seen in my life and frankly I was …