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…
Category: 3 – Moderate Hikes
These trails may not be suitable for children or beginners.
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. …
Fishing with Coyotes and Hiking Cougar Crest Trail ~ Big Bear
We spent Memorial Weekend up at Big Bear lake. We fished early in the morning one day and late at night the other day while listening to the coyotes howling through the night. We also hiked 1/2 of Cougar Crest Trail. To read more about it, click the link 🙂
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Bats, Dinosaurs, Wind and Morteros – Anza Borrego Desert State Park – April 2017
Exploring the mud caves at Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Click to read more…
Bringing New Eyes to Painted Canyon
It feels great to get back out hiking again. This last year has been full of surprises for me. I got a divorce, but in turn met the man of my dreams. We bought a house together in a whole new city and combined our families. We finally got settled into our new home after…
My First Trip to Idaho
I got a chance to visit Idaho just outside of Boise this month and was amazed by the beauty of our country. We hiked, fished, hunted and explored for 4 days and still weren’t able to do or see everything we wanted too. The time we spent in the backcountry took my breath away. Just this…
Box Springs Mountain via Two Tree’s Trail ~ August 13, 2016
Hiking Box Springs Mountain in the middle of August will not be a cool hike even early in the morning.. Click to Read More…
Potato Chip Rock – Mt. Woodson Trail ~ April 30, 2016
It was a cloudy wet Saturday morning on April 30, 2016, it had just rained a few hours before I woke up so everything was damp but the rain had stopped and the forecast showed no more, but who can really trust the forecast in So Cal? We were supposed to get an El Nino, but that never…
Anza Borrego Desert State Park ~ April 9th-10th, 2016
After doing the Ladder Canyon we wanted to do something similar and heard that there were some canyons out in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park that were the same. Doing some research we discovered that the Anza Borrego Park was huge with a lot of Points of Interest. There was no way to fit…
Mecca Hills – Painted Canyon – Ladder Canyon Hike ~ February 13, 2016
My first trip to Mecca Hills Painted Canyon on Sunday 2/13/2016 was amazing. I have never been to anything like this canyon before and didn’t know that this place existed so close to home. We started this trip like any other trip going out to the desert, super early! Taking the 10 freeway out from the IE…