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Glacial Mystery: March 2013
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As a daily journalist for 35 years, this is the place I talk about field reporting in the Sierra Nevada. Saturday, March 30, 2013. Lousy winter, wimpy snowpack, but not really a record dry season. Most major California news outlets reported last week that January, February and March were the driest on record. Were they right? And, even if it was a record for the Northern Sierra, it hardly makes this a desperately dry year, as some outlets portrayed it. Take a look at the eight-station index. View my comp...
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Glacial Mystery: Darwin Canyon, a mysterious, jagged, glacial countryside
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As a daily journalist for 35 years, this is the place I talk about field reporting in the Sierra Nevada. Thursday, August 23, 2012. Darwin Canyon, a mysterious, jagged, glacial countryside. This is Darwin Canyon, just below Mendel Glacier in the Southern Sierra. We came through here on our way to look for ice mummies on Mendel, which is several hundred feet - maybe 1,000 feet - above this canyon. I pitched my small tent on a little ledge above the tarn. Turns out, I was on someone's turf - a pika who...
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Glacial Mystery: Huntington Lake in February
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As a daily journalist for 35 years, this is the place I talk about field reporting in the Sierra Nevada. Saturday, July 7, 2012. Huntington Lake in February. You need snowshoes to get here, but it's really one of the nicest hikes I've ever had. I did it regularly over the last decade. I used to drop my son off at Sierra Summit so he could snowboard with his friends all day. Then I'd walk across Highway 168 and start down the snowy access road to Huntington Lake. Sitting on a snowy edge of a rock, listeni...
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Muir madness: July 2006
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Sunday, July 23, 2006. I gotta know . The company manual probably doesn't cover this. It's the perfect public relations storm. The utility bill arrives. It's $200, almost triple what it was last month. The mercury rises to 112. And the power goes out for three hours between 3 and 6 pm. I'm sorry, PG&E, but I would not want to be the guy who explains what happened to me on Saturday. I don't know the embryo woman and what's the difference if it's 92 degrees or 90 degrees? Both will be gone while I'm backpa...
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Muir madness: After the hike ...
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Monday, September 25, 2006. After the hike . I've been back a month now since I walked 78 miles on the John Muir Trail. Photographer Mark Crosse and I walked more than 15 miles on the last day. We had this magnificent glow when we reached the four-wheel drive for the ride home. I have to write about the glow - the one you get coming out of a long-term backpack through a place as wild and remote as the Sierra backcountry in Kings Canyon National Park. I went to bed after talking an hour with my wife, who ...
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Muir madness: I gotta know ...
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Sunday, July 23, 2006. I gotta know . The company manual probably doesn't cover this. It's the perfect public relations storm. The utility bill arrives. It's $200, almost triple what it was last month. The mercury rises to 112. And the power goes out for three hours between 3 and 6 pm. I'm sorry, PG&E, but I would not want to be the guy who explains what happened to me on Saturday. I don't know the embryo woman and what's the difference if it's 92 degrees or 90 degrees? Both will be gone while I'm backpa...
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Muir madness: Real life is enough
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Sunday, July 09, 2006. Real life is enough. A backpacking guru I know told me I should be out on the trail in preparation for my 55-mile haul on the JMT this August. No way I can get ready down in the flat land, said he. You need to be at elevation," he advised me. "You need to be walking up a trail with some weight on your back. I don't care if you're a tri-athlete. You can't do all that from down here.". You got it. A 25-year-old stud boy and little old me, the 50-plus nut case. Turns out, I wasn't pay...
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Muir madness: A bad moon rising
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006. A bad moon rising. Anyway, I have to settle this dispute before I can backpack this lovely mountain glen in the Dinkey Creek area. My little guy is supposed to go with me, but I can't very well reward him for getting suspended from school. I didn't do it very long," he offered. So there I am talking to Vice Principal Wormer (OK, that's not really his name.). You shouldn't make him stay home for this," I said. "It's like a reward.". He would hate that.". In my dream, as in real lif...
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Glacial Mystery: July 2012
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As a daily journalist for 35 years, this is the place I talk about field reporting in the Sierra Nevada. Saturday, July 7, 2012. Huntington Lake in February. You need snowshoes to get here, but it's really one of the nicest hikes I've ever had. I did it regularly over the last decade. I used to drop my son off at Sierra Summit so he could snowboard with his friends all day. Then I'd walk across Highway 168 and start down the snowy access road to Huntington Lake. Sitting on a snowy edge of a rock, listeni...
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Glacial Mystery: February 2012
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As a daily journalist for 35 years, this is the place I talk about field reporting in the Sierra Nevada. Tuesday, February 14, 2012. When it starts to look like this in Yosemite. This is the view from Sentinel Dome above Yosemite Valley this week. Half Dome is always the landmark you want in the middle of these shots. Everybody knows what it looks like. And if you followed the webcam. One more time: Look out across the rooftop of California in the background of this photo. That's where your water com...
