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ESAC: The Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center

ESAC: The Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center

If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that avalanche information is conspicuously absent on SierraDescents.com's pages. This is certainly not because I don't take (more)

A Look Ahead

A Look Ahead

The Sierra Ski Season is off to a less-than-outstanding start, with generally minimal snowfall thus far, and some nasty instability setting up due to shallow coverage. While (more)

Welcome to SierraDescents.com!

Welcome to SierraDescents.com!

It's been a long time coming! When I first moved to California, merging my writing and photography into a website about backcountry skiing in the Sierra Nevada seemed a fine (more)

Langley – Cottonwood Lakes Loop

Langley - Cottonwood Lakes Loop

Looking for a spectacular high-altitude day hike in the Southern Sierra? Mount Langley via Horseshoe Meadows is an excellent choice (more)

Highway 395

Highway 395

Wait for the traffic to clear, jump into the middle of the road, take a quick picture. No, it's probably not wise to encourage these things, but wide-angle lenses do create their (more)

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About SierraDescents

When there is snow, SierraDescents is Andy Lewicky's California backcountry skiing and mountaineering website. Without snow, sierradescents becomes an ill-tempered hiking and climbing blog.

Pray for snow.