Me at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area
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Recent Happenings

July 8, 2009
Half-Hearted Fanatic
July 5, 2009
Our new home
June 18, 2009
Joshua Trees
June 1-4, 2009
Mono Lake
May 2009
They found Everett Ruess!
May 2, 2009
Momyer Trail to Alger Creek
April 25-26, 2009
Early Anniversary Trip to the Beach
April 18, 2009
Middle Fork Lytle Creek Hike
April 4, 2009
Mill Creek Wildflower Hike
March 12-27, 2009
Arizona/Utah Road Trip!
March 7-8, 2009 Teaching Leave No Trace
March 1, 2009 Counting Sheep
February 21, 2009 Owl Canyon & Rainbow Basin
February 14, 2009  Congrats Brandon!
February 11, 2009
Love is in the air
February 3, 2009
Artwork inspired in part by my photographs
January 31, 2009
Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve
January 24, 2009
Hiking Hollywood
January 17-19, 2009
3 National Forests in 3 Days
January 12, 2009 Mataharihiker
January 3-4, 2009 Salton Sea
December 16, 2008 It's beginning to look a lot like...
Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2008 Colorado Road Trip
November 14-16, 2008
Mitchell Caverns & Mojave Nat'l Preserve
October 11-26, 2008
New England Trip
September 13, 2008
Mom and Dad's 40th Wedding Anniversary
August 25-28, 2008
Bishop Pass to Dusy Basin Backpacking Trip
August 17, 2008
Keller Peak Fire Lookout & Children's Forest
July 26, 2008
My best friend Mindi had her first child!
July 18-22, 2008
Big Pine Canyon Camping & Backpacking Trip
June 23, 2008
Get your Smokey on!
June 15, 2008
Mt. Islip Hike
June 3, 2008
Wildflowers on steroids!
June 1, 2008
Hike to the most romantic waterfall
May 18, 2008
Bonita Falls
May 14, 2008
Still edible! Top layer of our wedding cake
May 11-13, 2008
Anniversary Trip to the San Jacinto Mountains
March 30, 2008
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
March 29-30, 2008
Mt. Diablo State Park
March 27, 2008
Muir Woods and Mt. Tamalpais
March 25-26, 2008
San Francisco & Botanical Gardens
March 25, 2008
Point Lobos State Reserve
March 24-25, 2008
Big Sur
March 24, 2008
Hwy 58 Wildflowers
March 21-24, 2008
Carrizo Plain National Monument
March 17-18, 2008
Anza-Borrego in the Spring
March 16, 2008
Escondido Wildflowers and Birds
February 26, 2008
A short hike with an old friend
February 16, 2008
Yee Haw!  Small Town Rodeo!
January 13, 2008
A visit to Sea World
Decenber 30, 2007-January 1, 2008
New Years in Joshua Tree
December 26, 2007
Christmas is over
December 24, 2007
Christmas Eve Hike
November 24, 2007
My Grandpa
November 18, 2007
I'm light headed
November 10-11, 2007
Sand Dunes, Lava Tubes, & Petroglyphs
October 25, 2007
Smoke Story - So Cal Fire Photos
October 20, 2007
Pop of Color! Big Leaf Maples
October 6-7, 2007
Anniversary in the Aspens
September 30, 2007
The tallest waterfall in So. California
September 11, 2007
Smokey Bear and Baseball
August 31-September 3, 2007
Weekend on the PCT & JMT
August 24, 2007
4wheelbob made it!!
August 17-19, 2007
A Weekend in the White Mountains
August 10, 2007
First Hike in My New Forest
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Welcome to my website!  My name is Carol and I live and work in the beautiful San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains in California.  This site is a collection of my adventures hiking, traveling, photographing, and experiencing the great outdoors with my friends and family.  I hope you enjoy perusing this site and please sign my guestbook while you're here!

I grew up in Bishop, California located in the Owen's Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra.  I've also lived and worked on the western side of the Sierra and in Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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March 2003

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July 8, 2009


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carol at tarol.com






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"One final paragraph of advice:  Do not burn yourselves out.  Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.  Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.  It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it.  While you can.  While it’s still here.  So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space.  Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators.   I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards."  ~ Edward Abbey
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Quote of the Month

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace." ~
Gaston Bachelard
Photo of the Month - The front door of our first home :)
This website is dedicated to my Grandpa Frank
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