Tag: Big Bear Lake
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Bear Lakes Basin Traverse: Part 4
Part 4: two high passes in a day—Dancing Bear and Italy—over car-sized boulders, then down into idyllic Granite Park to camp.
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Bear Lakes Basin Traverse: Part 3
Part 3: the crux day—up and over Class 2 Feather Pass into the Bear Lakes Basin, the remote heart of the High Sierra, with Seven Gables beyond.
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Skin-on-frame Kayak
This started two years ago, when I first drew up the plans, since everything I found on the internet for skin-on-frame were single kayaks. Daphney wanted a tandem, so drafting was the only way. I modeled it after drawings of some fast tandems and tested buoyancy and stability curves on software. The project had fits…
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Camping by Big Bear Lake
After baking a sourdough boule for our lunch picnic, we drive up to Big Bear Lake’s Serrano Campground. We have several goals in mind: get the kids outdoors, escape the valley heat, and see Jupiter and Saturn while they are near opposition. The 130 mm reflector telescope had just arrived, and this makes it a…
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Angelus Oaks to San Bernardino Peak
We climbed San Bernardino Peak today. The hike started from Angelus Oaks. We left Loma Linda around 6:00 am, arriving at the 1W07 trailhead forty minutes later. It was cold, but I started out in shorts, a quick-dry t-shirt, and a beanie to prevent heat loss through the head. It turned out to be fine,…