Beautiful day yesterday up in the Tahoe area. Steve joined me for the planned outing around Blackwood Canyon. The idea was to head up the ridgeline to the...
Spent the last week or two wandering the desert. Couple of easy peaks in here, Quail and Ryan in Joshua Tree, Turtlehead in Red Rock, and another Grand Canyon...
I am hoping to get out on a backpacking trip in the next month. Does anyone know if the Horseshoe Meadows area is snow free? I have hiked Mt. Langley on...
What about Cirque Peak or if you want to try something further south there's Olancha Peak. We did Olancha over Memorial Day Weekend a few years back and there...
Thanks, I don't have picks or crampons, but I will l look in to Olancha, I may just end up visiting the the main part of Sequia National Park from the East...
Hi... Is anyone making the pilgrimage to the east side of Williamson this year? I was planning at having a crack at one of the east-side routes on Williamson...
I've done both ways (sigh... it isn't like that). Anyway, I've done Bairs Creek twice in the winter months (Feb & .. forgot) and it is much more enjoyable...
I have a group heading up George Creek May 1-3. The primary target is Williamson, but Bernard and Trojan are possibilities. Any information on current...
Hi... Thanks for your help and the photos. I think I'm going to give the North fork of Bairs Creek a shot. If anyone heads up into that area before May 9 or so...
Kathy, This depends a lot on your car. I got stranded last year when driving my daughters Toyota Yaris, but my Sons Ford Bronco would have made it out with no...
Robert: Based on what I saw last weekend in the Southern Sierra (I did a short hike part of the way up the Meysan Lake Trail last Friday and that's not too...
Expanding on Kathy's venture up the Meysan Lake drainage you might find my TR from Irvine helpful: http://www.thebackcountry.net/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1571 ...
No, I didn't intend it to be taken negatively. It just means that this year is another lower than average snow year and I expect the snow that you run into...
I'll try this again. I must not have hit the send button or else there's a delay. Similar to last year is not a bad thing. I just was trying to say it's...
I don't think she meant anything bad. Last year in mid May George Creek was mostly snowfree until the major fork at 8,800ft. This is a good thing, since you...
I hear there's still some snow in Tahoe, so I'm going to head up to do some snowshoeing this coming Wednesday. If anyone would like to join in, email me at...
Hey everyone, i had a notion to do whitney, but instead of the usual mess of the main trail or the mountaineers route i was thinking of maybe the north slope...
David, I'm pretty sure Bob and Rick have done the pass, so they can provide additional insight. Summitpost.org has route descriptions for those. From what I...
Hi... ... Whitney-Russell pass is an easy class 2 sand/scree slope on the east side, and easy but annoying talus on the west. I've dropped off the north side...
Lots of good advice from Eric and Peter. If you go too early (before July?) there can be hard snow and ice on the N. Face. Rick Kent had a scary TR about that...
thanks! i have done the whitney-russell pass a couple of times. so i was looking mostly for north face info and info from the pass to guitar lake. sorry i...
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