Month: July 2021

Mountain Drama

Wednesday, June 30 11:30 a.m. I woke up on and off all night, rather uncomfortable, but didn’t emerge from my cocoon until close to 6:00 this morning. In the two years since I last camped, it’s gotten much more painful to rise from the mat, whatwith my twisty old spine.  By 8:00 I was on the road, searching for the trailhead for the Curtz Lake to Summit Lake hike, a 1.8-mile loop. I’m out of […]

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Grover-Bound

Tuesday, June 29, 2021 4:00 p.m. Checking my supplies one final time this morning, I determined that I had packed everything I could possibly need. Just for fun, I checked the forecast for the eastern Sierra again, knowing what it would say: hot. So I was quite surprised to see the prediction of a chance of afternoon thunderstorms for both days. I didn’t take it too seriously, its being the dry season and a drought […]

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