Sierra Nevada
Order your 2017 calendars before supplies run out! ~ ~ ~ Last week Aubrey and I found ourselves in Yosemite for a few days, and took the opportunity to explore a little. Today, there is little mystery left as to how Yosemite Valley formed. However, just over 100 years ago, there were several competing theories. …Read the Rest…
(1) 2017 Calendars… pre-order now! (2) Instagram… I’m going to try sharing images there. Find me: floris_van_breugel! (3) I apologize for the lack of adventurous posts lately. I have spent much of my photographic time and energy the past two summers on a research and photography project studying the alkali flies of Mono Lake. When …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about Sierra Perfection ~ Hiking, Fishing, and Rafting
Type II fun: A horrible experience while you’re doing it, but rewarding after the fact. Examples include: mountaineering, bushwhacking, extended winter trips, etc. A few weeks ago, in the last week or so of March, Aubrey and I completed a week long ski tour from Mammoth Mountain to Tuolumne Meadows, roughly following the PCT / …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about Type II Fun – Ski Touring (part of) the PCT / JMT
Out of the past three weekends, Aubrey and I managed to spend two of them near Mammoth, CA, in preparation for a trip we hope to do later this spring. Although the main goals for these trips were (a) to remember how ski, and (b) to relearn avalanche safety, we happened to be in the …Read the Rest…
Last weekend Aubrey and I found some time to go backpacking in the Sierra. Coming from the heat of Pasadena, it was nice to cool off in the mountains again. The weather was a strange mix – we simultaneously had 65° temperatures and warm sun, while graupel (a cross between snow and hail) blew in …Read the Rest…
Continue reading about Beauty in Austerity – Inspirations from the Eastern Sierra
It had been a while since I’d had a breath of fresh air (the Pasadena air isn’t quite up to par with what the northwest offered), so I recently spent some time researching unique views of beautiful mountains. I settled on a quick visit to Yosemite, driving through the night straight to the GPS coordinates …Read the Rest…
