Panama Travelog #36
Metropolitan Park, Panama City - Mon, 30 Dec 2024. 1pm.

This is one of the journal entries I skipped on our trip to Panama last month to avoid getting too badly backlogged. On our trip to the Metropolitan Park (Parque Natural Metropolitano) in Panama City we hiked to the top of Cerro Cedro for a great panoramic view of the city ( Read more... )

Panama Travelog #5
Gamboa Reserve, Panama - Sun, 22 Dec 2024. 7:30pm.

This afternoon after landing in Panamá City (the one in Panamá, not Florida, US) and renting a car we drove around Panamá City and then north into the mountains along the spine of the country to the Gamboa Reserve. It was a drive of 45km that took about an hour due to some ( Read more... )

Trade Show Travelog #2
At my hotel - Mon, 2 Dec 2024, 3pm

Okay, first, before I write about getting settled in in Las Vegas, I've go to share this because the flight attendant on my Southwest flight asked all of us passengers to:


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Last weekend we drove up to the Sierra Nevada for a day of driving, wheeling, and hiking. I've already posted a few blogs about it, most recently Hiking Lost Lake to the Nipple. Yes, we were hiking to a summit called The Nipple. But we didn't get there. The wind was so fierce we turned back part way up.

How windy was it? Here's a short video clip ( Read more... )

This past Saturday we went hiking high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains above the Carson Pass. The hike is an adventure, of course, and I'll blog about it- soon. First I want to share the continuing adventure of just getting thereLike any good adventure, the whole journey is part of the adventure! ...Okay, the first hundred-some-odd miles of ( Read more... )

The goal we set for ourselves in hiking the Grouse Lakes basin on Saturday was to climb to the top of Fall Creek Mountain. We knew from the outset it wasn't a sure thing. For example, there's no maintained trail up the side of the mountain, and even the use trail requires route-finding skills and scrambling over challenging terrain. We decided we'd ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago we drove to northern California to enjoy hiking in the Trinity Wilderness northwest of Mt. Shasta. As I've written in several blogs recently, we had to contend with smoke from the enormous Park Fire blazing near Chico- plus smoke drifting down from fires in southern Oregon. 🥵 The latter caused us to cancel our plans to hike in the ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago we explored Pluto's Cave on the north flank of Mt. Shasta in California. This was part of the weekend trip spent evading smoke from a huge wildfire. ...Wait, did I say a wildfire? There was more than one! Smoke from other fires choked us out of our Sunday plans to hike in the Trinity Alps even though we were fine there just a day ( Read more... )

Saturday morning we drove up the mountain from Fresno to the Dinkey Lakes trail. Most of the drive was along California 168, up through the small resort town of Shaver Lake. We continued several miles further up into the Sierra Nevada, turning off the highway at Tamarack Ridge, elev. 7,582'. From there it was a bit over 10 miles on mostly dirt ( Read more... )

On Saturday the second half of our hiking two-fer in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Oakhurst was Fresno Dome. I already posted part 1 of 2 of the hike, us getting to the first vista of Fresno Dome. From there we steeled ourselves for the ascent to the summit.


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