Me at Hungry Packer Lake, Inyo NF
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Recent Happenings

January 11, 2012
Rest in Peace my Aunts Rhoda & Yvonne
December 26, 2011
Goin Jeepin 7 - Cougar Buttes
December 15-16, 2011
A night in Joshua Tree
December 2011
Winter Weekend in San Diego
November 25, 2011
Rest in Peace my Grandma Lorraine
November 2011
Joshua Tree NP and Pioneertown
October 8-9, 2011
Fall hike and "Babymoon" in Big Bear
October 7, 2011
It's a boy!
September 28, 2011
Children's Forest Exploration Trail Hike
September 10-11, 2011
Another Bishop Road Trip
August 20-21, 2011
Forsee Creek Backpack Trip
July 26-27, 2011
Fish Creek Headwaters Backpack Trip
July 25, 2011
Baby's first photos :)
July 10, 2011
Skyline Drive & Champion Lodgepole Pine Trail
June 2011
I am in love...  with a wildflower :)
May 31-June 1, 2011
Took my parents backpacking!
April 27-May 1, 2011
Santa Cruz Island Backpack and Kayak Trip
April 23-24, 2011
Bishop Road Trip
April 16, 2011
Aqua-hiking! South Fork Lytle Creek
Spring 2011
Beauuuutiful spring sunset :)
April 2-3, 2011
Carey's Castle Backpack, Joshua Tree NP
March 26-27, 2011
Ladder & Painted Canyons, Mecca Hills
March 19, 2011
Newberry Cave, Newberry Mountains Wilderness
March 5-6, 2011
Hellhole Canyon Backpack, Anza-Borrego
February 27, 2011
North Etiwanda Preserve
February 19-21, 2011
Agua Caliente County Park & Anza-Borrego
February 11-13, 2011
Upper Sisquoc River Backpack
February 5, 2011
California Fan Palms
January 25, 2011
Feinstein reintroduces desert protection bill
January 22-23, 2011
Mission Creek Preserve to the PCT Backpack
January 17, 2011
Goin Jeepin 6 - Highway 173
January 8-9, 2011
49 Palms and Barker Dam Hikes with my Family
Dec 31-January 2, 2011
San Mateo Canyon Wilderness Backpack
December 25, 2010
Christmas
December 5, 2010
Coso Rock Art
November 20-21, 2010
Lost Horse Mine Backpacking Trip
October 23-24, 2010
Quail Mountain Backpacking Trip
October 11-17, 2010
Fall Roadtrip Vacation
September 25-27, 2010
Muir Lake Backpacking Trip
September 18-19, 2010
Goin Jeepin 5 - Coldwater & Paiute Canyons
September 12, 2010
Goin Jeepin 4 - Blue Ridge & Wright Mountain
September 8, 2010
Introducing Indie
August 2-19, 2010
Road Trip to MN and Isle Royale National Park
July 20, 2010
Icehouse Canyon Dayhike
July 8, 2010
A Wilderness Farewell - RIP George Duffy
July 6-7, 2010
My 50th Backpacking Trip!  Dry Lake
June 12-14, 2010
Golden Trout Wilderness Backpacking Trip
May 26, 2010 Goin Jeepin 3 - Cleghorn Mountain
May 15-16, 2010
Bridge to Nowhere Backpacking Trip
May 7-8, 2010
Red Rock Canyon and Desert Tortoise Reserve
April 16-18, 2010
Channel Islands National Park
April 10, 2010
Spring has sprung!
April 3, 2010 Middle Fork Waterfalls
March 26-28, 2010
Carrizo Plain National Monument
March 14, 2010
Goin Jeepin 2 - Baldy Mesa
March 13, 2010
Chocolate Lilies! Santa Rosa Plateau
March 6-7, 2010
Lost Palms Oasis Backpacking Trip
February 27-28, 2010
Coyote Canyon Backpacking Trip
February 13-15, 2010
Point Mugu State Park
February 6, 2010
RIP Olyhiker
January 24, 2010
Hike to Saddleback Butte
January 10, 2010
Hike to the Devil's Chair
January 3, 2010
Mount Zion Hike
January 2, 2010
Devil's Punchbowl
December 27, 2009
Goin Jeepin - Cajon Mountain
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Welcome to my website!  My name is Carol and I live in the high desert at the base of the 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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January 11, 2012


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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

"Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind"

~ Kansas
Photo of the Month: My mom and her siblings
This website is dedicated to my Grandpa Frank
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