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We have driven by this lake a couple of times on our way to and from the Mammoth resort, but we didn't bother stopping: "Just another lake", - shrugged we.

It's at the urging of juan_gandhi that I looked into what's so special about the lake. And as soon as I did, I felt so foolish for just driving past it! I found out that the Sierra Nevada mountain range ( Read more... )

Hiking is usually a big adventure for me, even more so when I'm hiking alone. As N was getting his adrenaline fix biking down the Mammoth Mountain, I ventured into the wild on my own ( Read more... )

It was the end of a long day of hiking for me and mountain biking for N, but somehow I still had plenty of energy. "N, I've seen a sign for Devil's Postpile as I was driving here! Do you know what it is?", - and so our next adventure was born ( Read more... )

I thought that I knew every national park in California, that I have explored every mountain range, and yet here I was, staring with disbelief at my discovery of a completely new to me mountain range: Trinity Alps. The pictures looked absolutely incredible, and moreover, it actually looked like a wilderness, not a well-worn-out by millions of ( Read more... )