Lifting Clouds: 2:30pm November 30, 2012; as at least 9 solid hours of rain finally ends
It’s been awhile … a long while … since we’ve had as many hours of continuous rain as we had today. It’s early in the season, though, with the streams low and the watersheds still pretty dry, so it hasn’t created as much havoc as it might during wetter times. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bottcher’s Gap Read the rest of this entry »
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The famously graceful hand designs in the Tassajara rock shelters? “Inelegant” compared to exciting and possibly vastly more ancient discoveries nearby! Read the rest of this entry »
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As viewed from the Coast Ridge: The South Face of the Double Cone, with Kandlbinder Peak (AKA Pk. 4653) on the left, and a bit of The Window visible as a notch to the right of Kandlbinder
It was fall, 1974. I’d just turned 15 and, while I’d seen a lot of the Santa Lucia backcountry, I’d never been to The Window. Read the rest of this entry »
7 Comments | Big Sur, On Foot, Santa Lucias | Tagged: Big Sur River, Bottcher's Gap, Fox Camp, Happy Forks, Jackson Creek, Kandlbinder Peak, Pine Ridge Trail, The Window, Ventana Camp, Ventana Creek, Ventana Double Cone | Permalink
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