Camping

Night Hike to Cloud’s Rest

Last minute camping in October in Yosemite means limited options for campsites. Since upper & lower pines were full and white wolf & porcupine were both closed for the season, we ended up camping at Hodgdon Meadows right at the west entrance to the park. I called ahead to make […]

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Joshua Tree

We got to Joshua Tree around 2pm on the Saturday before new year’s. When we checked into the ranger station we found out all the campsites were full. I wanted to go set up camp in the BLM land outside of the park but Morgan said he had been there […]

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Yuba River

We decided on Yuba River as our next camping trip. There were a bunch of campsites along the river. We chose this one South Yuba Campground because we thought that since it was the only campsite in the area we would get a relatively secluded stretch of river to play […]

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Union Reservoir

Union reservoir is part of a group of reservoirs in the Stanislaus National Forest. I had previously been to Spicer Reservoir (the largest in the area) on a camping trip with my brother’s boy scout troop. I thought that this would be an out of the way area for some […]

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Mammoth

Overall: 9 Location: 9 We camped right on the side of a mountain in a grove of Aspens (I think that’s what those trees are). It was beautiful in winter, but I imagine beautiful in spring/fall as well. The mammoth mountains and gorgeous and so are the plains to the […]

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