Saturday, January 18, 2020

My "New" Toy

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Happy 2020!   The last Christmas present my mother got me back in 2018 was a toy drone. I have used it a few times in 2019. I will probabl...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

2019 was a Rough Year! (In Memory of Mom)

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I hope you are having a great holiday season. It has a been a long time since I have done something for this blog. I owe some of you that ha...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Hike the High Country: The Green Creek Trail (to Summit Lake)

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(GPS: N38 03.060 W119 19.180) Time to wrap this one up. After the Hoover Lakes we continued up the trail back and forth. Eventually we ra...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Hike the High Country: The Green Creek Trail (to Hoover Lakes)

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(GPS: N38 03.270 W119 17.470) Continuing from the last blog, we followed the trail and eventually were looking over another lake. This...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Hike the High Country: The Green Creek Trail (To East Lake)

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(GPS: N38 06.440 W119 16.310) This was another hike I did last summer. I had been on this trail a few times before, but it was always t...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Hike the High Country: The Duck Lake Hike (Part 3)

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(GPS: N 37 32.700 W 118 58.100) Time to wrap this one up. So after the pass we decided to go to the very end of the lake which would descen...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Hike the High Country: The Duck Lake Hike (Part 2)

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(GPS: N 37 33.500 W 118 57.750) So after getting out of the forest area, entering the mountain trail terrain, and having the sun out a ...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Hike the High Country: The Duck Lake Hike (Part 1)

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(N 37 35.500 W 118 59.450) This is the first of a three part series of a common hike done out of Mammoth, CA. Honesty, it wasn't my f...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Being Thankful and Looking Ahead

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I must admit that the last few months were rather rough on me. As I said previously, I had a bunch of stress this past year that was the wor...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

It's Armistice Day (WW1 Ends 100 Years Ago)

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So after about four years we have hit the end of the centenary of the WW1 time period. As history goes, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Hike to the Great Pumpkin! (Halloween 2018)

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(GPS: N33 55.870 W117 31.065) Happy Halloween! So a few weeks ago I headed off to Norco, CA to look for the legendary Great Pumpkin...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Looking back on the Summer of 2018

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Dusting off some cobwebs...we are now officially in the fall here in the north. Well, it has been a while. This is one of those years tha...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

The Death of the Red Baron (100th Anniversary)

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(AKA A Ghostrider in the Sky) I wanted to make a note that today April 21, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the shooting down and deat...