Trip Report
Sometimes A Lad Just Needs A Change Of Scenery!!
|
Tuesday November 27, 2012 8:37am
|
|
My son Justin spent the whole summer/fall working in Coldfoot Alaska, then he goes back to work in Anchorage!
So, y'all can guess what the weather is like up there right now.
Is it any wonder that he wanted to get a little sunshine and family action for Thanksgiving?
So I offer him a couple of east side "cold" desert options, but he prefers a few extra degrees of warmth. Well, I'm an easy going guy, so we zero in on something that might fit the bill. But I've never been there so it's an exploration run!
Who can guess where we went?
Hope you enjoy the change of scenery as much as we did!
More in a bit!!!
survival
|
|
About the Author
survival is a big wall climber from A Token of My Extreme. |
Comments
| Did you like this Trip Report? Got something to say? Don't hold back... |
|
eKat
Mountain climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 08:39am PT
|
YAY, FarmerBruce. . . beautiful photos, AS ALWAYS. . . but I don't know where you went!
ox
eKat _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ahhhhhhhYouKnow
|
|
WML
climber
Edge of the Electric Ocean Beneath Red Rock
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 08:40am PT
|
Cool! TPFU
|
|
nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 08:43am PT
|
Looking down on the desert reminded me of Organ Mountains, but I know you've been there and the rocks and plants seem a little different. In any case, it looks like a GREAT place to visit.
|
|
Studly
Trad climber
WA
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 08:43am PT
|
For a minute there I thought you went to ......Fresno
|
|
Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 08:48am PT
|
Lembert Dome?
|
|
ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:00am PT
|
Are you off of I-80 somewhere E. of Reno but W. of Lovelock?
|
|
Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:04am PT
|
Cool stuff... I dig the dilapidated truck pic too.
|
|
rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:06am PT
|
Looks like Carrizo Plain and Soda Lake
|
|
dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:18am PT
|
Really cool TR. Glad you had a great time with your son. The pics are awesome.
|
|
rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:21am PT
|
What area is the barn and corral ?? Nice phots by the way, most peoples end up bleached out.
|
|
Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:25am PT
|
Some nice pictures there Bruce. Strange landscape.
|
|
ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:45am PT
|
yeah!
I was also going to put a vote in for carrizo plains...that grassland with the salt pan and foothills are a unique combo.
did you visit the creeks that flows back and up because of the kink that the san andreas fault put in the creek bed?
In the spring they have a hot air baloon gathering when the flowers come out...its amazing. TFPU!
cheers
LS
|
|
Jeremy
climber
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:45am PT
|
BIG BUMP BABY!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:52am PT
|
Interesting place.
|
|
this just in
climber
north fork
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 09:53am PT
|
I was thinking between Bakersfield and Tehachapi until I saw the salt flats. Good to see you traveling and back in California.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 10:03am PT
|
Nice shootin'! But I need either more general or more specific references
than 'Selby Campground', if you please. :-)
Never mind, I went back and saw Carrizo Plain. Duh....
Last time I went by there I guess I was lookin' out the wrong side of
the car...
|
|
SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
|
Ahhh....not more I can say than "wish I was there"...so so so nice!
Susan
|
|
Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
|
Stellar pics are usual Bruce,
Good to see your sun getting some viatmin D (sunshine) during the long alaska winter!
Thanks!!!
|
|
Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 02:14pm PT
|
Thanks for posting this. Love it out there. Such an odd little Death Valley sort of place in the middle of the southern coast ranges...
DMT
|
|
eKat
Mountain climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 02:17pm PT
|
Yeah. . . it's kinda like a Death Valley/Bodie. . .
VERY NICE!
AND. . . FarmerBruce. . . NO WAY could you have a kid that old!
|
|
Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 02:22pm PT
|
Yep. I need to climb McKittrick Peak so ima going back down there as some point. Already did Caliente... sutnning views, great hike and bike.
DMT
|
|
eKat
Mountain climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 03:12pm PT
|
Heh heh heh..... a comment on my youthful good looks I hope?
Indeed!
|
|
Enthusiast
Sport climber
Port Townsend WA
|
|
|
|
Nov 27, 2012 - 03:47pm PT
|
That's some beautiful rock!
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Author's Reply
|
Nov 28, 2012 - 12:04pm PT
|
Bump for the best son this side of anywhere!
|
|
moosedrool
climber
Stair climber, lost, far away from Poland
|
|
|
|
Nov 28, 2012 - 07:20pm PT
|
TFPU!
beautifull picks!
|
|
Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
|
|
|
|
Nov 28, 2012 - 07:29pm PT
|
You are a phenomenally good photographer. I'm not sure if you
realize how clear and beautiful these images are. I noticed this
in your wonderful trip report into the Sierra with your family,
absolutely compelling, and one of the best contributions to
SuperTopo in a long time. You have a gift, I believe, a real gift,
that could develop into something very powerful and important,
if you should by chance have the desire to focus that direction.
A true artist can see simple things, a fence, a clump of grass,
some lichen on a slab of granite..., and find something in it, or
draw something out of it that takes us to some strangely quiet,
mystical place. Ansel Adams had this and applied it to the amazing
grandeur of the Sierra Nevada. Keep up the great work.
|
|
drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
|
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 06:16am PT
|
Nice pics Bruce!
|
|
eKat
Mountain climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
|
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 06:44am PT
|
Bump for the best son this side of anywhere!
Hear! Hear!
And. . . bump for his dad, too!
:-)
|
|
El Cono
Boulder climber
Tierra Del Coņo
|
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 07:36am PT
|
You went for a walk. BFD.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Author's Reply
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 08:47am PT
|
Thanks for the kind words Pat. I think I have a good eye sometimes, but the truth is that digital photography makes it so much easier than back in the day with our old film jobs. Some people had the skills even with that stuff!
El Cornhole, from The Land Of The Cone? The one up your a*#? Yeah we went for a few walks, BFD.
I see that you're a n00b here, who doesn't play well with others. Maybe you should try to learn some climbing and then you can contribute some real goods.
Until then, you're a nobody, but thanks for bumping my thread dickweed.
|
|
Captain...or Skully
climber
|
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 11:52am PT
|
Looks like a cool place to groove around in, Bruce.
TFPU!!3!
|
|
Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
|
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 11:57am PT
|
Many great places were discovered by people just going for walks. Personally I appreciate any type of trip report! Looks like you had a good time, and I didn't know your son was living in Anchorage! Let me know if he needs a climbing partner anytime.
|
|
eKat
Mountain climber
Less than a second shy of 49 minutes
|
|
|
|
Nov 29, 2012 - 12:00pm PT
|
dickweed
What is it about that word?
Dood. . . it cracks me up EVERY SINGLE TIME IS HEAR IT!
HohMahn.
|
|
| Did you like this Trip Report? Got something to say? Don't hold back... |
|
|
 |
|
Recent Trip Reports
- Indian Creek Abandoned Trail: History, Adventure, Fog
May 24, 2013; 7:52pm
- ICA 2013
May 24, 2013; 7:36pm
- Cabezon Evening, A Desert Sonata
May 24, 2013; 4:35pm
- Silk Road to the Karakoram Highway, a Cal Domes mega-classic!!!
May 24, 2013; 2:42pm
- Absolutely Free to Hawkman's Escape
May 24, 2013; 12:58pm
- The First Vedauwoo Sushifest
May 23, 2013; 8:12pm
- Fairest of All (Fairview Dome)
May 23, 2013; 4:11pm
- Into the womb of the Crack of Doom.
May 23, 2013; 4:08pm
- book of job (photo essay)
May 23, 2013; 3:25pm
- Middle Cathedral - North Buttress (V 5.10a)
May 22, 2013; 6:32pm
- 1st Ascent "The Arsonist" Burning up the North Face of Fairview Dome
May 22, 2013; 11:43am
- Striking Gold in the Shadow of Basket Dome - 2012 FAs
May 22, 2013; 11:02am
- A Yosemite First Timer + a Tuolumne ascent
May 21, 2013; 11:45pm
- In Celebration of 100 Flying Adventures
May 21, 2013; 10:09pm
- Thunderbolt to Sill Traverse, Palisades July 2008
May 21, 2013; 10:15am
- View more trip reports >
|
