California

Ein Bericht mit vielen Sonnenuntergängen, aber ohne viel Text. In Erinnerung an Stefan_83 (R.I.P.) und um uns daran zu erinnern, dass auch für uns alle irgendwann die Sonne untergeht, für ihn viel zu früh.

Der Yosemite National Park ist wahrscheinlich DAS Wander-Eldorado in Kalifornien. Die Landschaft ist beeindruckend, die Natur gewaltig. Deshalb besuchen den Park jährlich auch mehr als 3,5 Mio. Menschen. Trotzdem: Wandert man etwas von den Parkplätzen weg, wird es gleich viel ruhiger - Die Besucherströme verteilen sich dann...

Der Sequoia National Park ist bekannt für seine große Anzahl an Riesenmammutbäumen. Im Park gibt es einige schöne Wanderrouten und auch einige hohe Berge. In diesem Bericht wird eine kurze Wanderung auf den Moro Rock, einen schönen Aussichtsgipfel beschrieben. Wir waren am "Labor Day" im Park, daher war zwar viel los, die...

Update October 23, 2020 see below* June 24, 2016: During my hike last week I saw a mountain which caught my attention. To my surprise, after consulting the USGS topo map, I found out that it didn't have a name on any map, even though it is quite a prominent peak with a topographical prominence to its neighbor (Mount Agassiz)...

I have climbed "The Sisters" (P. 10153 and 10045) west of Round Top twice already but only from the Saddle west of Round Top. If in the area or looking at atopo map, one can clearly see that the ridge is not only two, but depending on how you count, made up of 4-5 Sisters from the saddle west of Round Top all the way to the...

After an extraordinary long winter with more than average amounts of snow, the Sierra Nevada really lived up to it's name: there was and still is a lot of "Nevada" up in the Sierras and it'll take quite some time to melt it all. One ski resorts for example decided to stay open until August! (click). I was in the Donner Pass...

DG aka "Why Wait!?" and I wanted to go for a "hike" a long time already, but for one and the other reason it never happened yet. Today it did and it was a fun showshoe/back country ski outing on a wonderful spring day in the Sierras. We did the loop from Woods Lake to Round Top and back, like Donnie Darko and I did...

Im Rahmen eines kleinen Roadtrips entlang der kalifornischen Westküste machten wir einen Abstecher ins Yosemite Valley. Und das direkt am ersten wirklich warmen Tag des Frühjahrs im Hochtal. Dementsprechend lag noch gut Schnee auf den Bergen ringsherum, der der warmen Sonne wenig entgegenzusetzen hatte. Warum ich das gleich am...

Round Top is on my wish list every season and today I was contemplating to start at Woods Lake, like I did here. However, the last winter storm brought more snow to the already very high snow pack in this area and I was afraid to not even be able to park at the turnout there. Instead I planned to start at the sno-park on Carson...

The start to the winter in California's Sierra Nevada was rather slow, but picked up in mid January and really kicked in in February. In the Donner Pass / Castle Peak area there were more than 7 meters of snowfall in February, with some daily totals of more than a meter. At this point the cumulative snow fall at Donner Pass is...