After last week’s failed attempt to do the Mt. Pinos-Cerro Noroeste 13-mile traverse, we realized that doing the same circuit in the opposite direction would be 4 miles shorter, principally because we could park at the west trailhead and save the distance over the top of Mt. Pinos. For some reason, Chris had thought…
The ridge running east to west from Mt. Pinos to Cerro Noroeste contains the highest points in the San Emigdio mountains, within the Transverse Ranges that separate the San Joaquin Valley from Southern California. Having resolved to keep our weekly hikes in the 10-mile distance range, we looked into the classic traverse of the Mt….
We had originally thought of doing something in the Sierras this weekend, but, since our nephew, Jake, had a mountain bike race near Lake Isabella on Sunday and we didn’t want to drive the Kern River Canyon twice in two days, we decided to hike in Wind Wolves Preserve again. Two weeks ago, we…
Well, so much for a hike a week. After taking three weeks off so Chris could heal from a bad case of poison oak that became infected (a situation that landed him in the hospital for a couple of days and required two weeks off work), we chose to get back in the saddle…