Steamboat Hike

Hiking up Steamboat from our camp on the nearby playa in the Black Rock Desert. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warner Mountains Day Hike

Warren Peak in the South Warner Mountains in Northeast California has been on our list as a backpack for quit a while. We were in the area but didn't want to backpack it, so we hiked it...getting as close as we could as a day hike. The round trip mileage to Patterson Lake (in the bowl below Warren) is 13.5 miles, and longer if one continues up past Patterson Lake to climb the ridge to the Warren high point.

 

We hiked out four miles to get a look at the peak and surrounding area, figuring we will come back some day prepared to backpack to Patterson and climb up to the peak. A beautiful area with 360 degrees views and a pretty easy trail.

 

From the Pepperdine Campground trailhead: We did 8 miles total out-and-back.

 

Looking into Northwest Nevada

 

Warren Peak center horizon

Heading back down

For me only...unless you love Eric Clapton

 For me only...unless you love Eric Clapton

Turn up the volume. 

Guilty!

Yvon Chouinard

Putting this here until I can find a better place to put it... 

“Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.” - Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Layla

EC grinning in the lead up...

 

Hike At Fort Bragg

Along the bluffs on the California Coastal Trail in Fort Bragg, California.