El Camino Del Rey
Posted in news and links, travel and getaways, tagged el camino del rey, fear, heights, hike, scary, walk on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Not a walk I’d recommend to the faint of heart.
(Link via Andrew Sullivan)
Posted in news and links, travel and getaways, tagged el camino del rey, fear, heights, hike, scary, walk on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Not a walk I’d recommend to the faint of heart.
(Link via Andrew Sullivan)
Posted in personal, travel and getaways, tagged angeles national forest, bear, camp, campground, camping, chantry flats, forest, hike, hiking, hoegees, life, math, mountain, Mozart, nature, san gabriels, scenery, seclusion, solitude, tent, travel, weekend, wilderness on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The reason there were no posts over the weekend is that I went solo-camping in the San Gabriel mountains just north of Pasadena.
The idea of spending a weekend alone in the wilderness first occurred to me during a hike I did in the San Gabriels with a couple of friends last summer. I was awestruck by the utter [...]
Posted in personal, travel and getaways, tagged 58, driving, eerie, freeway, freeways, journey, moon, night, rural highway on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I was driving from Pasadena to Palo Alto on Tuesday when at one point the freeway started looking rather unfamiliar - too much traffic, too many exits. A short investigation revealed that as a result of staying on the wrong lane about twenty miles back, I was going north along the 99 rather than north-west along the [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on September 7, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I was staring out of my window at the endless morass of white and grey clouds when the pilot’s voice crackled on the microphone. “Ladies and Gentleman, in a short time we will be landing at Paro. Please fasten your seatbelts and put your seats upright. And if during the descent you see mountains closer [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on July 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Massive Mount San Antonio- or Old Baldy if you prefer- is the grand climax of the 50-mile backbone of the San Gabriels. No other peak in the range rises to challenge its 10,064′ elevation. From its summit you look over a good part of Souther California- an expanse of mountain, desert and coastal lowland. On [...]
Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on October 29, 2004 | No Comments »
Yeah, yeah…we live by the desert, but when the Caltech Y is here, can fall colours be far way?
So we went on a hike to Zion National Park, Utah.
We leave Caltech around 2 pm, Friday. There are forty of us. Some veterans of several Y-hikes, others new, all excited! Zion is 400 miles away, in [...]