Posted by Karen on 31-May-2010
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After 3 days of nice sunshine, it rained again last evening and so today it is a foggy and damp kind of day. Since I woke up with a headache and didn’t feel I’d be able to maintain the proper glorious spectator smile, I decide to skip the last day of the 42nd Kinetic Grand Championship and go for a hike instead. I headed north to the Redwood National Park and took the Lyons Ranch Trail to the old homestead. A herd of deer and I kept startling each other in the dense fog, but otherwise it was a quiet hike in the solitude of the fog. The homestead is so very well preserved that I almost wondered if someone was still living there, but no, not on park property. I searched around a bit for a geocache that was hidden there, but with the fog as dense as it was, I didn’t want to wander too far off the trail, so I didn’t find it. But I did have a nice hike and my headache went away, so that was a bonus.
Posted by Karen on 10-May-2009
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The golf course at Wawona had been calling Vic’s name since our visit last year, so he went to play a round of golf this morning and we girls went and checked out the Yosemite Pioneer History Center. I’ve been to the history center before, but can visit it many more times. It’s a really lovely and peaceful setting next to the river and the buildings on display are all in really good condition.
After golf and lunch, we saw a truck drive over a road that cut through the golf course and we wondered where it went, so we went that way too. The road turned out to be the Chowchilla Mountain Road, a former stage coach route, now a rutted, dirt road that takes out out of the park. We followed the road over hill and over dale, next to the flowing river and finally made our way to the summit of Devil’s Peak. Only a couple of tough spots where there was still snow on the road, but we made it. We met a bicyclist at the summit and while we marveled at his strenght to peddle up here, he was surprised we made it in the SUV… LOL! There is a fire watchtower at the summit, but it was still closed and nobody was home. There is also supposed to be a geocache up there, but we all looked and couldn’t find it. 
Back to the valley and pizza at Curry Village (yumm).
Posted by Karen on 13-Apr-2009
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I joined some folks from the Sacramento Hiking and Adventure Meetup Group for an evening walk along the American River Parkway. Their plan was do hike a 7 mile loop, but being out of shape, I only joined them for the first mile and a half or so and then turned around and headed back on my own. For the most part I sort of kept up with their brisk pace, but boy am I out of shape… time to change that! Heading back at at a slightly slower pace, I was able to spy some deer grazing off the path a bit. I also saw some wild turkeys up the way a bit, but a bike rider yelled at them and scared them into the brush before I got close. Ahh well, spring is in the air and I saw a red robin to prove it.
GPS Stats: • Odometer: 3.24 miles • Total Time: 1:28 • Moving Time: 1:01 • Moving Average: 3.2 mph • Overall Average: 2.2 mph
Posted by Karen on 25-Nov-2008
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Before heading over to the park, I stopped a explore Moqui Cave, a really cool museum that the host’s father started and created. His father, Garth Chamberlain, was a man of many talents. He was a professional football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1940s; an artist who created wonderful pieces of artwork and incorporated art into the making of the cave that started life as a tavern and eventually became the museum it is today. Garth was also a fossil hunter and had found numerous dinosaur footprints, which were on display too. It was very need to have his son be the one operating and giving out information on the stuff in the museum. After enjoying the cave, I headed over to Zion National Park. What can I say, it’s beautiful, just beautiful! I stopped at view points along the road, went through the 1.1 mile long tunnel cut through the mountain, hung out at the visitor center enjoying the beautiful weather and a late lunch. I hiked the Emerald Pools trail; the pools are kind of low and definitely not emerald. And in the waning light, I walked up the path to view the Weeping Rock.
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