Postcard trip reports

Postcard trip reports

You can fit more words than you think on a postcard...if, after filling the card with tiny letters in blue ink, you go back and write between the lines in red. Below are some trip reports of adventures outside, mostly in the Sierra Nevada in California. Each was originally written on a postcard (or in a few cases two) then typed in to the computer before getting sent. Gaps between dates generally reflect times I wasn't getting postcards written...not times I wasn't going on trips. Unfortunately some great trips missed getting written up.

Snow! at Echo Summit, March 1999
The Lost Coast--April 1999
Skaha Bluffs--climbing in British Columbia, May 1999
Thunderbolt Peak--Memorial Day weekend, May 1999
Red Peak and Ottoway Lake--Yosemite National Park, July 1999
Courtright Reservoir--climbing, Labour Day weekend, September 1999
      A Little Nukey, Welcome to Courtright
Two to Desolation--Lover's Leap and Mt Tallac fullmoon hike, September 1999
      Surrealistic Pillar Direct, Corrugation Corner
Fairview Dome--climbing in Tuolumne, October 1999
      Regular Route on Fairview, Hobbit Book
New Year 2000--climbing in Tuolumne Meadows
Lake Aloha--Desolation Wilderness, January 2000
      Ski/snowshow trip
Joshua Tree--President's Day, February 2000
The "Abode"--Emigrant Wilderness, March 2000
      Ski/snowshow trip
Tinkerknob--Granite Chief Wilderness, April 2000
      Ski/snowshoe trip
Musings on the theme of epics--in Kings Canyon National Park, June 2000
Dike Route--climbing in Tuolumne, August 2000
      Cry in Time Again, Dike Route
Cathedral Peak--Tuolumne, September 2000
Moonlit Meander Kuna Crest Traverse--Tuolumne, October 2000
Courtright Reservoir--climbing, Labour Day 2000
      The Paraclete, A Balance of Power
Joshua Tree--Thanksgiving, November 2000
Royal Arches Route--Yosemite Valley, New Years 2001
Peter Grubb Hut--Donner Summitt area, January 2001
      Ski/snowshow trip
Orienteering at Briones Regional Park, March 2001
Glacier Point--Yosemite National Park, March 2001
      Ski trip
Smith Rock--Climbing in Oregon, May 2001
      (actually two postcards, one very large)
The Line--Climbing at Lover's Leap, June 2001
Snake Dike--Yosemite Valley, June 2001
East Buttress of Middle Cathedral Rock--Yosemite Valley, June 2001
Labour Day in the Monarch Divide--King's Canyon NP, September 2001

Sadly I've turned writing these things into such a production that I haven't written any in quite a while...sigh...

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