Is there a region that is so beautiful it impresses you time after time? Southern Oregon Coast is exactly that place for me! Rugged cliffs covered with evergreens, hills covered with wildflowers, sunsets so stunning you cannot breathe, or foggy days that cover you like a soft blanket, waterfalls, and mountains, how can all of…
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Northern Sierra Nevada Fall Road Trip
I am continuing to rebuke the myth that there is no Fall in California. The itinerary below was done as two weekend trips in the middle of October. It’s needed to say that the Fall season in that year started a bit later but still on the third weekend of October, some higher elevation groves…
Lassen National Park
If one day someone asks me what my two favorite California National Parks are, I would say Lassen and Redwoods. No, not Yosemite – that is amazing but always busy, sometimes way too busy to be enjoyable. Not Death Valley, which is though very likable but still is a desert that is deadly half of…
Yosemite Hike
Do you have one track that you never able to complete? Always something happens. Weather, timing, closures… For me its four mile trail that starts from Yosemite Valley and slowly climbs up to Glacier Point. On our first visit, it was so hot so after a mile of the hike, my not trained body gave…
Hazy Hike at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Fall Creek Unit
Sites in the post are closed due to CZU Lightning Fire Complex. Please check web sites on the latest info. It was a smoky November. So hazy, one cannot see ridges around the Bay Area. Even the coast had poor air quality. We spent two weekends in a row doing nothing, and I felt anxious….