Bodie & The Eastern Sierras, Part 3

Part 1 here, Part 2 here
A few of the other stops that we made along the 395:
MONO LAKE
Mono Lake is one of the dominant features of the Eastern Sierra.  And of course, I didn’t manage to snap a single decent photo of it.  Damn.
Mono Lake is actually the remnant of a huge ancient lake that [...]

HIKE: Verdugo Mountains South

The Verdugo Mountains are a short mountain chain standing between the mountains of the Angeles National Forest and the vast alluvial plain that makes up the Los Angeles basin.  Like the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, which terminates at Griffith Park, it’s an island of natural area in the middle of the suburban sea.
Topping [...]

Bodie & The Eastern Sierras, Part 2

There are many things to be seen along the 395, of which we only managed to cover a few on our trip.  Today I’ll start with the preeminent attraction, Bodie, and hopefully cover the other sights we saw tomorrow.
BODIE STATE HISTORIC PARK
The ghost town of Bodie is, quite simply, everything a ghost town should be.  [...]

Bodie & The Eastern Sierras

Agh, spent too long editing pictures to cover the full trip - here’s a little something just to get started.  Pictures too!
The trip that made me so darn tired the other day was a group trip to Bodie and the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.  It’s an area that I hadn’t been to in [...]

*Blushing*

As I write this, on my lunch hour at work, I’m running on only about 10 hours sleep out of the last 72.  And a huge chunk of that was spent driving about 800 miles total over the weekend.  The fact that I can put together a coherent sentence at all is, really, quite a feat.
Just [...]

Bad Blogger! Very Bad Blogger!

Geez, I haven’t blogged a thing this week, have I?
Truth is, all I’ve done this week is go to work, come home, watch TV, e-mail & chat, read, and sleep.  I’ve been the most boring person on the face of this earth
And yeah, I know, there’s some pretty stiff competition out there.
But I’m heading out of [...]

Bad Trip

It’s rare that I have a bad hike. Really rare. So rare as to call it practically non-existent for me.
Things that might ruin a hike for others don’t faze me in the least. Cold? No problem, I’m sweating from the exercise anyway. Hot? The breeze will feel just that [...]

You can lead a user to the keyboard…

Today I got an e-mail from a user, a new temporary employee, with a whole list of things that were “wrong” with her system and needed to be fixed.
Item #4 was this: “my direct fax to e-mail number 123-456-7890 doesn’t work.  People tell me the number hangs up.  I need a viable fax number.”

HIKE: Switzer Falls

Switzer Falls is kind of an odd hike: it’s a waterfall you can’t really reach.
You can hike to the brink of it from above, or to a lower cascade below, but without some truly foolhardy scrambling along deteriorating canyon walls, you’ll be hard-pressed to reach the falls themselves.
Switzer Falls is a good, quick hike for [...]

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