Our road trip this time takes us deep into the Nevada desert to an old mining town that is still booming today. It was my kids 16th birthday and the only wish was to stay at a haunted hotel. So we headed out on a haunted road trip filled with abandon buildings, scary clowns, and…
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Lake Dorothy
Our annual hiking trip found us in the Inyo National Forest again. This year we are hiking behind Convict Lake and backpacking to Lake Dorothy. We headed out Wednesday night following along the very familiar 395 highway. We got to Bishop early enough to check in to the Bishop 395 Inn and make a quick…
Three Sister Falls in San Diego
Three Sisters Falls is an out and back 4.1 mile trail in the Cleveland National Forest close to Julian, California. We came in from Temecula, taking highway 79. Once you are about a mile away from Julian you will turn on a country road that will take you through some amazing ranches. A couple more…
13 Places to Visit While Road Tripping Through Southern Utah
May 2022 For this three day weekend we decided to head to one of our most favorite places to visit, Utah, to explore some of their back country roads. We had no plans except to start near Zion National Park. Below you will find our video and all our stops along the way with some…
Historic Railroad Hiking Trail to Hoover Dam
When you think of Nevada you think of the Glitz and Glam of Las Vegas but Nevada offers so much more than just casinos and the night life within the casino walls. We traveled to Nevada on a Wednesday morning in February for a work trip. I have been wanting to do some of the…
How to See the BEST of Death Valley in 2 Days
Friday Night 2022 is the year of road trips for us. We started the year with a weekend Road Trip to Death Valley. We both work over 40 hours a week so most over our trips are only 2 days but we cram as much as we can in those two day. This blog will…
10 Places to See on Highway 395 in 2 Days
Friday Night 1. Hogback Creek Our summer road trip focused on the 395 highway along the Eastern Sierra’s mountain range in the Inyo & Mono County. We found camp late Friday night at a primitive camp spot along Hogback Creek. Nothing around us but the bright stars and the dark sky in the sierra’s. …
Wolves and Deer and Bears, Oh My!
In 2020 the kids lost out in so much due to the COVID pandemic, especially in birthdays and summer vacations. 2021 was a little different. We had a lot of things open but with restrictions. School in our area had opened their doors and everyone was getting ready to go back to school live and…
Garnet Lake – 3 Day Backpacking Trip – July 22-24, 2021
This video showcases our three day backpacking trip to the back country in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. We spent 3 days and 2 nights in the most beautiful country. Our first day we hiked to Garnet Lake from Agnew Meadows via the Shadow Lake trail. It was about 8 miles with about 3000 elevation gain….
Floating away in the Eastern Sierra Nevada 2017
The days are starting to heat up and we have that itch to get into the backcountry of the Western Sierra Nevada’s. Even though the snow has not melted at the lakes we want to get hiking to, it has melted enough to get to the lower levels. So far we have gotten to explore Convict Lake, the June Lake Loop, Tioga Lake, Twin Lakes, and Walker River. All the Lakes are full and the streams that were once slow moving are now raging rivers, the rivers are overflowing their banks and are flooding the valleys. Roads are getting washed out and trickling waterfalls have now taken over mountain sides. It is a sight like no other. The record snow fall is now the record snow melt.
The drive for us is about 5 hours to get Bishop. Some people can’t believe we would drive 5 hours for a weekend trip, but 5 hours isn’t that long when you can lose yourself for 2 days surrounded by the beauty of this area.
Since the back country has been under a little more snow than we like we have decided to hold off on our hiking trips until later into the season. Our last two trips have been exploring different parts of the area that are accessible via paved and dirt roads. We camped on the backside of Grant Lake in the June Lake loop and fished the lakes in the surrounding area. Please enjoy the pictures from our last two trips.