Snow filled the valleys of the western Great Basin at the end of January, when lake-effect squalls, energized as the…
I spent the day, having started well before sunrise, on an overland obsidian recce focused on the geomorphology and distribution…
Desert Creek Peak 8969 ft (2734 m); Gain 2740 ft 2021.01.17 With the post-holiday, pandemic surge still upon us, Darren…
Montezuma Peak 8373 ft (2552 m); Gain 1624 ft 2021.01.09 It was time for the initial ‘Second Friday’ excursion in…
Trinity Peak 7337 ft (2235 m); Gain 2005 ft 2021.01.03 I have a long-held goal, contrived in the early 1990s,…
Obsidian, a form of volcanic glass, is a key constituent of traditional toolkits — and the detritus of tool manufacture…
Twenty-twenty might not be a year to look back on, especially for those whose lives suffered in the wake of…
The Carson Sink is the terminal basin of the Carson River, draining from the Sierra into western Nevada. The sink…
It was time for a shower. Climbing out of Death Valley, we arrived at Lone Pine, California, in the late…
Our night in the overflow camp was not that bad, and we were up early covering the short distance to…