Donna and I are getting kinda tired of being homebound over this winter. But what to do? Not gonna lie, most of MY interest is in the Sierra. Everything else I do is mostly about getting and staying in shape for the all too short Sierra season. Yeah, I know, that's pretty one dimensional. And it's kind of a problem… Unfortunately (or if you ask the farmers in the Central Valley, 'Fortunately') this year has had a lot precipitation… read SNOW in the Sierra. So the Sierra is off limits until… well for a long time. So now what do I do? Well Donna has a little broader view, which I'm grateful for… And so together we came up with a new hiking undertaking that has my interest a little bit. We're making a list of peaks in the region… The Bay Area, the Big Sur region, the Ventana Wilderness, Marin County, the East Bay and then some other peaks of interest. Then we're gonna start climbing em… one by one and as we do, we'll cross em off our list. They're mostly local so there's no snow issue… no excuse. But I do want to climb White Mountain in the White Mountain Range east of the Sierra Nevada. Not sure if it should be on this list but I don't want to forget it. At 14,246′, it's the second highest mountain in California so interesting from that aspect.
But this isn't all… just the first ones we came up with over the weekend. I'll add more as we go along. However what I'd like to do is narrow the list down a bit But it's early in this process. We'll figure out what to do as we start climbing some of them.
Oh and this might be fun to do for specific local trails too… but that's material for another post.
Great to hear from you Victor! Marin has some sweet hikes! We've been talking about doing something up there. I really like the Point Reyes area. But it's a long way away and we have SO much hiking locally that we never put one of those junkets together.
Regarding Sierra trips… I've got a trip all locked and loaded 'cept I'm trying to find a job… so I don't know what my summer schedule is going to be. We'll probably have to content ourselves with a summer of shorter weekend type trips… sigh… We've also been talking about exploring the Ventana Wilderness. It's close but it's also really rugged… oh and there's not much water either. Us Sierra people aren't used to having to carry water.
Okay wild man, as I said, great to hear from you. I'll tell Donna that you commented.