Friday, December 25, 2009

The Heavenly Silent Tioga Pass

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Merry Christmas! For today, I wanted to put this video of my drive up Tioga Pass during the summer. Tioga Pass leads one into the eastern si...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

A few thoughts on "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

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A few weeks ago I was in church singing this song. Although I am sure a lot of people out there know the story behind it, but I thought it w...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Earthquake Rock at McGee Creek Campground

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(GPS: N37 33.865 W118 47.180) Earthquake Tumble Rock (Youtube Version) This was a quick side trip I had wanted to do after reading about it ...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

The Double Indemnity Train Station Location

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(GPS: N 34° 07.390 W 118° 15.515) I have been holding back a bit on movie location posting. I intend to really start doing that again in 20...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (The Summit)

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(GPS: N38 01.470 W119 18 325) Okay! It is time to wrap this one up. Like most summits there is usually a bit of wind to deal with. This...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (The Final Ascent)

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It was quite exciting to look over the edge of the ridgeline. Not that there would be any issues of slipping here, but the thought of it was...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (...and Then Some)

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From here I went around the snow. There was no need to cross over it. This was really the part when I was certain there would be no more ...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (Over the Hump...)

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We started up the talus slog. I tried to stay on the use dirt trail as much as possible, but at times just went on the talus rocks. It dep...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (Heading to the Hump)

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(GPS: N38° 02.115 W119° 18.070) The problem with gettting to what I am calling the "hump" was that there was still a lot of ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (The Pass)

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(GPS: N38° 02.485 119° 17.700) At some point we got off trail due to some snow, and that cost us about 30 minutes of extra hiking and ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Excelsior Mountain (The Beginning)

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(GPS: N38 02.875 W119 15.800) Part of my strategy in hiking this year was to not visit the highest mountains or the most popular trails....
Monday, November 09, 2009

Hidden Ranch Location

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(GPS: N33 48.280 W117 39.180) The final part of the hike I have been showing in the past few blogs was this point. Although one can continue...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Black Star Canyon Indian Village

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(GPS: N33 48.140 W117 39.290) Blackstar Canyon Indian Village (Youtube Version) First, let me say that I spent a lot of time searching blog...