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Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park

September 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

King

Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, while created at different times and technically separate, are contiguous in the Southern Sierra Mountains. They contain magnificent sequoia trees are easily visited together. Kings Canyon Kings Canyon  has three radically different sections, the: Canyon, for which the park is named. The canyon is the deepest in the country, […]

Filed Under: Activities, Adventures, California, Destination Type, Destinations, Dining, Hotels, Hotels, Nature & Hiking, Restaurants, Sierras, Travel, United States Tagged With: Big Stump Trail, Big Trees Trail, Centennial Stump, Fallen Monarch, General Sherman Tree, Giant Forest Grove, Grant Grove Restaurant, High Sierra, John Muir Lodge, Kings Canyon National Park, Moro Rock, Sequoia, Sequoia National Park

Sierra Mountain Area

September 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Murphys hotel

We were on the way from San Francisco to Yosemite National Park. To get there, we took a break from the long drive from San Francisco with a few stops along the way to some beautiful mountain towns, Murphys California Murphys California is a pretty, historic, gold mining town. Many of its business district buildings […]

Filed Under: Activities, California, Destinations, Dining, Featured-City, Hotels, Hotels, Mariposa, Murphys, North America, Sierras, Travel, United States, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Ahwahneee, Brooks Wine, Lavender Ridge Vineyard, lsequoias, Mineral Wines, Miwoks, Mriposa Grove, V Restaurant Savoury’s Restaurant, Wawona, Yosemite National Park

Catching Up with Amador and El Dorado County Wines

June 6, 2015 Leave a Comment

Sierra Wine Country We generally enjoy, but do not specifically search out Sierra Wines–wines which focus primarily on Zinfandel and Rhone and Tuscan varietals. Our primary exposure to them is from trade tastings including Zinfest, Rhone Rangers and this week’s Wines of El Dorado tastings. We were, however, been anxious to revisit …

Filed Under: Dining, Featured-Trips, Mountains, Restaurants, Sierras, Wine Events, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: restaurants, Sierras, wineries

Hiking and Eating at Carson Pass, CA

June 18, 2015 Leave a Comment

Tahoe-mtns

We had a timeshare week that was expiring and had little time to travel so we decided to make a less than optimal timeshare choice (Kirkwood CA) and found ourselves spending a late spring (beginning of June) week atop Carson Pass, in the high Sierras in California. The Pass is primarily a ski resort. To the extent […]

Filed Under: Featured-City, Featured-Trips, Mountains, Nature & Hiking, Sierras Tagged With: hikes, mountains, restaurants

Making the Best of a Week in Carson Pass, CA

June 5, 2015 Leave a Comment

It was as trip we didn’t really want. A use it or lose it timeshare situation that resulted in a week in a very basic ski resort in a very remote location in the Sierras. How remote is it? It is an hour drive for anything other than skiing, hiking or fishing. Heck, …

Filed Under: Adventures, Featured-Trips, Lake Tahoe, Nature & Hiking, Sacramento, SF-Nature/Hiking, Sierras Tagged With: Lake Tahoe, mountains