tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69944585846633189492024-10-24T13:20:11.151-07:00hiking, climbing, nature, geology, food & drink, snowsports, camping, backpacking, travel & more!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994458584663318949.post-3796632654972314742011-07-11T11:49:00.001-07:002011-07-11T11:52:25.752-07:00

After adjusting to some work and personal changes, and spending the better part of a year planning our wedding, we're back in full force!But we're no longer blogging, now you can follow the adventures via video on our new channel featuring travelogues, vlogs, beer stuff, gear guides, and more.Watch at:http://youtube.com/ramblinbearsOr at:http://www.ramblinbears.com

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Though it might be obvious, since our last post was 3 months or so ago, D&D Adventurelogue is taking a break. It's not that we aren't adventuring, though perhaps not as much as in the last couple years, we just haven't been able to devote the time to writing that we'd like. Will we return to blogging? Yes, but when and in what capacity are unknown to us right now. Thanks to everyone who

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Trip Report - Climbing in Tuolumne MeadowsSeptember, 2009 Our most recent trip to Tuolumne was on the last weekend the campsites were open for the season, which is a great time of year to go. Around this time the weather starts to get a little colder, the leaves start changing colors, and the rain storms have stopped coming so regularly. We met up with a bunch of people there, and had a fantastic

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Like this post? Then check out our new YouTube channel: Ramblin' Bears! Aerobie AeroPress Innovative lightweight coffee press Car camping, travel, breakfast AeroPress magic Last Christmas I received an amazing gift from Eric. It's my handy dandy new coffee maker for camping, the Aerobie AeroPress . Usually when we go camping I find myself drinking watered down coffee-flavored

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Trip Report - Backpacking in the Hover WildernessSeptember, 2009Recently Eric, Kenneth and I adventured into the wilderness to seek solitude, and to break our long distance walking records. We also recently moved into another apartment, which Eric and I have come to realize, is a lot like backpacking. We moved from one apartment in our complex into another - It was one of the easiest moves we

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Greetings!I'm sitting here on my lunch break, writing a brief update on the weekend's backpacking trip, in a feeble attempt to be timely.We never reached Tower Peak. In fact, we never saw it again after the first few miles in Leavitt Meadow. As Kenneth so profoundly put it near the beginning of the trek, "that looks far away".Out intended, and unreached, destination. Yes, it does look far

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As I write this, we are already on our way to the Sierra for a long-anticipated backpacking, peakbagging adventure. Kenneth, Amber, and I are off to attempt Tower Peak in the Hoover Wilderness, some 15 miles distance from the Leavitt Meadows trailhead.Tower Peak in the far distance, this is taken from near where we will startIt was the sight of Tower Peak that 'piqued' my interest in climbing

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Gym Climb Progress ReportAugust 2009 When I first started to climb a little over a year ago, I didn't really understand what I was getting myself into. I knew I really liked the feeling of getting to the top of a climb, even if I was still on the baby wall, but I never really understood the package you get when you enter the climbing world. No one warned me about the bruised knees and the bumped

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Like this post? Then check out our new YouTube channel: Ramblin' Bears! REI - Camp Bed 2.5 Self-inflating sleeping pad Oversized, side-sleepers, car camping Sleeping... Many people prefer doing it in beds, but others occasionally venture away from them. Some people can sleep face-down on the floor. Many of us are side sleepers and really need something to cushion our shoulders and

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Trip Report – Lover's LeapJuly 2009Guest Blogger: Kenneth Davenport Our good friend Kenneth and some of his fellow climbing buddies headed up to Lover's leap this past month. He spent the time taking a newbie on trad, and climbing some sweet 5.10 climbs. They experienced all sorts of situations, and it seems like they had a blast doing it! The Leap always brings an adventure with unpredictable

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Duration 7:53First official video with our fancy-pants camera. Also, shooting on rappel made for more appropriate shots than the butt-dominated fare you get on the ground. Be sure to check out the HD version if you have a very fast connection.YouTube: Regular - HD HugeThis is climbing the easy 5.6 at Spicer Terraces on toprope. This was originally intended just as a test of our HD camera, but

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Like this post? Then check out our new YouTube channel: Ramblin' Bears! prAna - Stretch Zion Short (men's) Cargo short / climbing short / stretchy synthetic Size reviewed: XL the prAna Stretch Zion Short Rarely is a piece of outdoor clothing, that you buy for a specific purpose, so well suited to everything else that you do that it ends up being the go-to item in your arsenal on

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Trip Report - Yosemite With Eric's ParentsToulumne Meadows, Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite National Park, CAJuly 16-19, 2009It was a warm weekend in the park, but once again we found ourselves having a blast. I was able to see some things in Yosemite I've never seen before, and visited some good ole' fashion tourist attractions. Eric, his parents, and I hopped in a rented SUV and headed towards the

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Trip Report - Hiking Mt. HoffmannToulumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, CAJune 27, 2009Well, the solstice has passed, and Summer is now in full swing. Amber and I decided it was time to get away for the weekend, and get up into the mountains (not that there isn't plenty of this planned for the upcoming weeks).Mt. Conness from above May Lake, this is the kind of thing that gets us going!Over

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Yosemite is known for it's scenic hiking, and one of the most popular trails is the Mist Trail. Eric, myself, and our friend Jen decided to visit this trail during our most recent visit to the valley. Everyone knows that hiking the mist trail during the spring is the best time to do it. Vernal Falls and Nevada Falls are raging, and the water is blasting at full force. It's a very popular hike

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Trip Report – Yosemite ValleyApril 3rd – 5thGuest Blogger: Scotty EllisYosemite Falls in good form!Hi! My name is Scotty and I am a recent addition to D & D’s group of adventurous friends. I am writing this trip report to add some new blood to the D & D blog postings. Our recent trip to Yosemite was my first trip with the D & D crew. The plan was to leave and arrived early Friday, the

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Recently, my brother came to visit from Texas. He spent a few days here romping around the East Bay, Sugar Bowl, Tahoe City, and San Francisco. We had a great time! He put together a fun video of his trip....West Coast Idea from Andrew Davila on Vimeo.Photo Galleries:Andrew's Visit- March 2009Andrew Davila's pics MArch 2009

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Many of you probably heard about the incident in the news that, more than likely, made ski and snowboarding helmet sales go up. Though hindsight is 20/20, these sort of incidents will naturally bring up the discussion of helmet use. People argue that a helmet could have made the difference in this accident, so here comes the question... should I wear a helmet? A couple of weeks ago Eric, Keeley,

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One of my challenges in transitioning to an active lifestyle from a period of relative laziness, is balancing the activities I love with the activities I need. I've gone through phases where I cycled for fitness, worked out at a traditional gym, dabbled in jogging. Most of these lacked the fun factor to keep me motivated (with the exception of cycling, another story). Lately, love of climbing,

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Greetings Blogworld!Things have been crazy around here. We last wrote about our snowcamping experience on a beautiful but frigid moonlit night on the snowy white flanks of Mount Shasta. The storm that had blown through the week before kicked off a near-non-stop barrage of pacific storms that have more than tempted us to go and enjoy the deepening snowpack.So we've been running around doing this

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Trip Report - Snow camping at Shasta and Transceiver clinicMount ShastaFebruary 13 - 15, 2009We finally did it. We went snow-camping. It turns out snow camping is a lot colder than you think, but Shasta was beautiful. We took the long drive up to Shasta and stayed in a very nice hotel on the first night, called the Cold Creek Inn. Eric, Kenneth and I decided to take a transceiver workshop up at

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You don't always need a lift to enjoy good skiing. Nordic skiing offers a number of ways to enjoy the snow covered wilds without the cumbersomeness of snowshoes or the trudgery of postholing. The unifying concept is that in one way or another, your heel can pivot free and allow forward motion under your own power.There *was* a trail here at some point!Amber and I took up cross-country last season

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A few weeks ago, Eric and I were at the climbing gym when we noticed that Hans Florine was giving a lecture. (Hans Florine is an American climber famous for holding the world record for the fastest climb up El Captain, in Yosemite.) We thought to ourselves, "hell yeah we should go to that!" I was actually amazed that the bouldering wall and big walls didn't completely lose climbers when his

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Trip Report - Winter Fun in the Southern SierraLake Isabella / Kern River Valley / Greenhorn Mts, Wofford Heights, CAJanuary 1 - 5, 2008After a couple days at work between Christmas and New Year's, Amber and I headed south to meet some Santa Barbara friends for a sort of ski trip with other stuff mixed in. We stayed at a rental lake house near Lake Isabella, in the Kern River Valley. A short

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As it turns out, I love skiing. I once flirted with snowboarding, but only because when I was 16 I thought boy snowboarders looked cooler than boy skiers. The fling with snowboarding ended very quickly. Being frustrated, cold, and on my ass the entire day was not my idea of a good time. Skiing, however, is the exact opposite of that. I was happy, warm, and on my feet. I was also wrong about boy

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