October 23, 1997 - I'm currently putting together a fun field studies course to Death Valley this winter (Jan 2 - Jan 10). Please join us if you have the time and sense of adventure. For more information click here. I'm also working on "Memoirs from the Pacific Crest Trail," a journal of sorts, about my trek across the Sierra Nevada Mountains (over a year ago). I hope to post it by Christmas.
April 29, 1997 - Here is a great place to go in the spring, Henry Coe State Park. It is Northern California's largest preserve of pristine Mediterranean landscape and well worth a visit, especially at this time of year with the wildflowers still in bloom.April 1, 1997 (April Fool's Day) - No joke, I have finished scanning the slides of the Pacific Crest Trail. I think they look great. Check them out. They begin at Toulumne Meadows (Yosemite) and end near Ebbett's Pass, 115 miles north. The entire trek continues to Donnor Pass some 110 miles north, and by summer I'll put these up too as well as write a longer article on the PCT.
February 6, 1997 - I have finished the maps of Northern California.. Check them out. Next I am scanning some slides of the Pacific Crest Trail from last summer's hike. Because this service is FREE, well, I am admittedly a little slow. Surely, however, I will get to the PCT pictures and then add them to NCBP soon. Thanks for staying tuned.
December 20 - I found a slide scanner finally but I'm on break for awhile. By this spring season, however, I promise to have photos and some information on our PCT trip across the Sierras. Someday, incidentally, I plan to compile all of this information on a CD-ROM with more pictures and maps.
October 14, 1996 - Well, I made it all the way across the Sierra-Nevada from Yosemite to I-80 (Sugarbowl Ski Resort) with over 6 rolls of slides taken and many stories to tell. I experienced some of the most spectacular, outstanding, and remote country in Northern California like Matterhorn Peak in Yosemite, Leavitt Peak near Sonora Pass and finally the vast expanse of the Tahoe Basin. What a trip! I recommend it for anyone--if anything, a trip like this will teach you how to appreciate the small things in life.
Pacific Crest Trail - Last summer I hiked from Yosemite to Lake Tahoe! We spent about a month crossing through Yosemite, the Emigrant Wilderness, the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, the Mokelumne, the Desolation, and finally the Granite Chief Wilderness--over 225 miles.
Oh, one more nifty piece of news. Be sure to check out the Trinity Institute for Geographic Education and Research -- TIGER--leading exciting interpretive fields studies expeditions into the backcountry. Learn more about geography by experiencing it! Coming this summer through Butte College located here in the North State (offered for colleg