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sean’s fish pictures

I’m a bit tardy putting these up, but Sean sent me photos of two fish he caught while camping in the Tioga Pass area during July. The brown is his first brown trout, caught on a fly. The second is a brook caught out of Lee Vining Creek, where they can be quite spooky.

Yosemite photos up!

Got the many photos up from last week, when I took my grandson (and his mother) on his first camping trip, in Yosemite Valley! Look below…

the adventure (soon) begins

The gear is getting lined up, the fishing tackle assembled and the gas tank is full. In less than 36 hours, the Great Fishing Adventure of 2007 will begin. Camping in the Rock Creek area, fishing Crowley Lake, McGee Creek and the Little Lakes Valley. Might squeeze in time at my favorite spot on Lee Vining [...]

Crater Lake, Mt. St. Helens & Seattle ’02

Perhaps it was a bit ambitious, but when all was said and done and visited, our trip to Crater Lake, Mt. St. Helens and the Seattle area was a fantastic trip filled with astonishing sights (photos below). We rolled out of town with the car loaded and maps marked, on a nice summer day, though [...]

Lake Tahoe ’97

On Aug. 16, 1997 we staked our temporary claim to a campsite at Eagle Point at Emerald Bay State Park.  This is probably one of the best campsites we’ve had at this campground – across from the showers, within easy walking distance of a small beach and Eagle Point, where we were able to watch [...]