Me on Bishop Pass, John Muir Wilderness
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Recent Happenings

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 5, 2008
Support 4wheelbob in the Relay for Life
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
July 1, 2007
Big changes in store!
June 23, 2007 Sunday Peak, Giant Sequoias, & Ghost Stories
May 14-19, 2007
Our Honeymoon
May 12, 2007
Our Wedding!
April 21, 2007
Jackass Mail Run
March 30-April 2, 2007
Lake Isabella Fishing Derby
March 17, 2007
Mill Creek Hike
March 14, 2007
Ain't nothin cuter than a...
March 3, 2007
Unexpected Beauty - A hike up Lewis Hill
February 23, 2007
Wow-wee Sunset!
February 10-11, 2007
Carol's Bachelorette Party!
February 7-9, 2007
Owens Valley - Randsburg Road Trip
January 27, 2007
Snow Falling on Aspens
Dec. 31, 2006 - Jan. 1, 2007 New Years Weekend Explorations
December 24, 2006 The best Christmas present ever!
December 17, 2006 Marble Falls Hike
December 9, 2006 Sherman Peak Hike
December 2006 Hiking above Springville
November 23-25, 2006 Thanksgiving Explorations
November 18, 2006 Deer Creek Grove & CA Hot Springs


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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.
Website Created
March 2003

Last Update

October 8, 2008


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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

"I'm 31 years old, that ain't the end, but it sure ain't where I began" ~ Jewel
Photo of the Month
~ Isosceles Peak reflected in an unnamed Dusy Basin lake

This website is dedicated to my Grandpa Frank
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