My Own 100 Hikes

I took a trip with friends into the White Mountains in early August. Well properly, I joined them for astronomy at night, but spent the day either hiking or hanging out in a motel room in Bisho...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/08/astrophotography-in-white-mountains.html

Hiked and visited on Sunday, June 9 and Monday June 10. I was in Moab from June 7 through the 10th, having committed myself to three consecutive days of telescope work to support the Southeas...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/06/corona-arch-and-along-potash-road-near.html

Hiked May 26, 2024. I've hiked this mountain more than a few times, because it's quick and easy to get to, and it's a good enough length and steepness that it makes for a great workout. A link ...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/06/black-mountain-sloan-canyon-nca-nv.html

Hiked May 24, 2024. I've hiked to the Hollywood Sign a number of times, but can't offhand recall the last time. On Friday, I was at the Observatory with about three to four hours to spare, and ...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/05/griffith-observatory-to-mount-lee.html

Late Friday night (May 10, 2024), my facebook feed blew up with various people reporting aurora borealis (Northern Light) sightings as far south as Arizona and southern California. It was overc...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/05/no-aurora-for-me.html

I had read about Ice Age Fossils State Park opening just a few months ago. On reading more, I learned there's an actual visitor center at this park, unlike the national monument that virtually...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/05/ice-age-fossils-state-park-north-las.html

Hiked Sunday, April 21, 2024. Carried my crop sensor dslr, but forgot to return the SD card, so that was just extra deadweight for me to carry. Grumble. A long time ago, I hiked the Calico Hi...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/04/calico-hills-and-calico-tank-trails-red.html

While still being on "borrowed time" (vacation days we took to see the eclipse, even though we ended up not going), this day (which would have been a travel day back from our eclipse viewing de...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/04/birds-henderson-bird-viewing-preserve.html

Visited April 8, 2024. This was the day of the total solar eclipse. I had long-standing plans to fly to Austin, TX to see the eclipse, but about a week of consistently poor weather forecasts fr...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/04/gold-butte-national-monument-nv-april-8.html

Somehow managed never to blog this hike, from about 18 months ago. First did this hike back in 2016. Hadn't necessarily planned to hike it again, but it became one of those, "I have time for...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/03/northgate-peaks-trail-zion-national.html

After driving up to and hiking around Ubehebe Crater, we needed to drive back down to the Las Vegas Valley. Shortly after Beatty, NV, we passed a large brown sign, "Big Dunes." And we saw, yes,...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/03/big-dune-amargosa-valley-nv-march-10.html

This was the first day of daylight saving time, but I got up at my "regular" wake up time, and tried for an early start. Drove off early, with the thought of maybe returning to a less-crowded L...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/03/ubehebe-crater-death-valley-national.html

Made it up to Death Valley over the weekend. Drove up on Saturday, March 9. Stopped at Dante's View on the way in, to get a view of the Badwater Basin from above. Then drove around and down to ...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/03/lake-manly-death-valley-national-park.html

A variety of factors have kept me off the trail, which has been pretty damn frustrating. Finally managed a little excursion on Monday afternoon, February 12, 2024. Drove out to Kenneth Hahn Sta...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/02/kenneth-hahn-state-recreation-area.html

The last hike I took last year, but my first post of 2024. I got a very late start, partially because I worked the night before, and partially because the main goal of this trip was going to be...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2024/01/joshua-tree-national-park-december-31.html

Hike from the summer, during my ill-fated Perseid trip. Second day in the Sierra. Convict Lake was a frequent fishing destination, back when I was in high school and before. Never got to hike a...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/12/convict-lake-towards-mildred-lake-hiked.html

Hiked November 6, 2023. While still having many older hikes that need to be blogged, thought I'd go ahead and put this more recent one up. It's the good season for visiting Valley of Fire, wi...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/11/valley-of-fire-state-park-nv-fire-wave.html

One of two hikes I took around the Perseid Meteor shower, back in August. Friends booked the group campground in the White Mountains for meteor and general astronomical viewing. I was happy t...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/11/sabrina-lake-past-george-lake-inyo.html

With the exception of the rabbit brush shot at the end of the post, all of these were taken on Sunday, October 8. By now, these areas are likely well past peak, but probably still scenic. ...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/10/eastern-sierra-october-7-and-8-2023.html

Remember how I keep saying I'm way behind in my blogging? Well, this one is almost a year old. That makes it sort of timely, since it's soon to be fall foliage time in southern Utah, again. ...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/10/south-fork-taylor-creek-kolob-canyons.html

Returned to Cedar Breaks the third weekend in September, to volunteer for the Southwest Astronomy Festival. I set up my 11" SCT at Northview Point on Friday and Saturday nights, then down in ...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/10/south-rim-trail-cedar-breaks-national.html

I have some astronomy outreach events coming up, so I wanted to get some late-summer practice locating objects with my dob. So the plan was to drive up late, take a short hike, get back to th...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/09/johns-camp-joshua-tree-national-park-ca.html

Fremont Indian State Park is just off of I-70, about 17 miles from where east of where the Interstate starts, at I-15. During construction of I-70, in the 1980s, archeological evidence of an...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/09/fremont-indian-state-park-utah-july-16.html

Mesa Verde National Park is in southwestern Colorado, not very close to any Interstate highways. But it's a relatively manageable two day drive from southern California to get there early eno...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/09/mesa-verde-to-navajo-national-monument.html

This is a non-exhaustive collection of photos, other than those I took on the Petroglyph Point hike , and on the Balcony House and Cliff Palace Tours. There are still lots of photos I'm not...

https://myown100hikes.blogspot.com/2023/09/mesa-verde-besides-petroglyphs-and.html