The often unknown price of planning a trip to The Cabin can come in many forms…frozen pipes in the winter, construction noises in the spring…and heat in the summer. I knew it’d be a whirlwind (long) weekend, with Christopher and Katelyn dropping in Friday night for some fishing Saturday, followed by Sean and Kirsten arriving [...]
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teach a son to (fly) fish…
Give a son a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach that son to fly fish; and you will have to answer constant questions about where, when, how…and tie a bunch of flies for his next camping trip.” Sean and Christopher are back after a three-day fishing/camping trip in the high country around Tuolumne [...]
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…
next stop: Yosemite
This week I hope to pass the torch to my grandson with his first introduction to camping. Tomorrow we’ll be on the road to Yosemite Valley; a pretty great place for one’s first camping trip. The hope is to hit all the usual highlights: the granite sentinels (Half Dome, El Capitan, Cathedral Rocks, Three Brothers, [...]
late Memorial Day fishing report
I suppose the answer to the question “How was the fishing trip?” will, at least for me, typically be predicated on the catching. This time around, it was good. Some fishing, some catching, some exploring and some relaxing. And all with the crowds of summer still held to a pre-Memorial Day minimum. Every year for [...]


