Author Archives: Jack

The Fish Creek/Vallecito Badlands area of Anza Borrego is supposed to be fossil rich, so we went for a hunt.

Desert hiking was on the agenda for 2 days in Joshua Tree National Park.

John is working off his San Diego 100 Peaks and had 62 down and wanted to bag Granite Mountain to make it 63. That is my favorite mountain in San Diego County, so Uwe and I joined him on this hike.

Seeing the fall foliage in New England is one of the most spectacular and iconic trips you can take. Dorie and I took off to do some leaf Peeping in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine and were lucky enough to hit the peak color.

Dorie and I have discovered a series of short trails and abandoned forest roads on the Southeast side of Big Bear Lake.

Two mountains were left on my San Bernardino List of the Sierra Club 100 Peaks List (actually 280 mtns.)

American Indian history has always been interesting to me, so for our annual Father/Daughter trip this year, Quinn and I traveled to southern Utah to find and explore some ancient Anasazi ruins.

Uwe has been working on a new list of Desert Peaks. He had 3 in mind in the Joshua Tree NP area and invited me and John.

It’s getting toward the end of the year and I needed about 6,000 ft to make my goal of 75,000 ft elevation gain and Uwe needed about 8,000 ft to make his goal of 100,000 ft gain.

Quinn and Ken came to visit over Thanksgiving. Ken had never been to the Anza Borrego Desert so a road trip and hike to the Indian Hill area was in order.