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A Blue, Blue Christmas
If you can’t be in Mammoth today, I guess Los Angeles isn’t too shabby right now either. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours—and a Happy (and snowy) New Year! (more...)...
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San Francisco
How bad is California’s drought? San Francisco Bay is now a wide, grassy plain, completely devoid of water. Desperate locals seeking affordable housing (more...)...
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Merry Christmas 2013!
No snow for us this year, so we went for the traditional and festive Southern California bike ride. At least we’ve got the beach! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours! (more...)...
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Laying Down the Laws (Museum)
Every time I drive through Bishop I’m always curious about the Laws Railroad Museum, which is nearby on Highway 6. Traveling with my family this past week, I finally got a chance to stop by and check it out. The place is interesting. I’d say it’s not so much a ‘train’ museum (like CSR in (more...)...
Posted in California | 2 CommentsSo Quiet…
I’ve never heard it so quiet here. We live about 0.5 miles from the 405, and you don’t realize how much background noise the freeway makes, constantly, 24 hours a day, until it’s suddenly gone, and all there is in its place is silence. Complete and utter silence. Extraordinary. (more...)...
Posted in California | 2 CommentsCarmageddon Nears…
Southern California travelers beware: at 7 p.m. Friday, July 15, the 405 freeway will close between I-10 and Highway 101 to allow a mad 53-hour rush demolition of the Mulholland Drive bridge in Sepulveda Pass. What does this mean, exactly? No one really knows. If everyone heeds the warnings and avoids the closure area (and (more...)...
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Santa Monica Pier 100th & Fireworks
Santa Monica Pier celebrates its 100th anniversary tomorrow, September 9, 2009. The day will be packed with events, climaxing in a grand finale fireworks show at 8:50 p.m. There haven’t been fireworks at Santa Monica Pier in nearly twenty years, so this is a special treat indeed. Be aware that the whole day is likely (more...)...
Posted in California | 0 CommentsFourth of July Fireworks
For those of you who didn’t go see 4th of July fireworks, first of all, shame on you! But here’s a video of the grand finale at Marina Del Rey I shot yesterday with my handicam. MDR puts on a great show every year. For a (relatively) small municipality, they sure know how to light (more...)...
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Renaming North Pal
The Los Angeles Times has an article on efforts to rename North Palisade as “Brower Palisade.” With an elevation of 14,242′, North Pal is California’s fourth-highest mountain and the Sierra’s signature mountaineering objective—Whitney nothwithstanding (more...)...
Posted in California | 0 CommentsProposition 8: NO
For the past few days I’ve debating whether or not to make any personal endorsements for the upcoming election. This is, after all, a mountaineering website, and with all the competing campaign messages bombarding us, it’s been nice to keep SierraDescents as a sort of non-political safe haven (illusory or not). That is, until I (more...)...
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