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Hiking and Eating at Carson Pass, CA

June 18, 2015 Leave a Comment

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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

The Beauty and Variety of South Dakota’s Black Hills

June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Black Hills tourism all began with Colonel George Armstrong Custer (yes, that Custer—as in massacre). While the Black Hills had been designated an Indian reservation by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, Custer’s regiment, which was conducting a survey of the area, discovered gold. While he wired notice of the find to superiors in a […]

Filed Under: Featured-Trips, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing, South Dakota Tagged With: Black Hills, cave, mountains, South Dakota