Portland Getaway

• Mount Tabor Park
• Cannon Beach
• Drive from Cannon Beach through Astoria and back to the airport
• Oregon Historical Society Museum
• Walk along the river
• Powell's City of Books
• Diversion
• Olympic Provisions
• Tasty n' Daughter
• Stumptown Coffee
• Short Round
• The Cavern

 

San Jacinto Snow S24O

With the snowing melting fast, I wanted to try and get one more snow camp this season so I headed up to San Jacinto for a S240.  I left mid day for the nice drive up to Idylwild.  The town was pretty empty since the two main routes from LA are closed due to storm damage.  When I arrived at Humber Park and there only a few cars there.  I got my gear together and started up Devil's Slide.  There wasn't any snow at the start and I made good time.  A volunteer ranger checked my permit about 2/3 up and we chatted for a bit.  There started to be snow on the northern slopes but I didn't need to use my newly acquired microspikes.  I got to the saddle and found snow about 1' - 3' deep.  I put on my snowshoes and looked for a good camping spot.  I found a nice level location next to a large felled tree.  I brought my GoLite Shangri-La 2 tarp to try it out in the snow.  It was easy to setup using my homemade snow anchors. I melted snow for water, made an early dinner and settled in.  I read and listened to podcasts for a while until the sun set and I feel asleep.

The night started pretty warm but cooled quickly.  My Tyvek ground sheet froze and had to use my fleece liner.  I woke up at 5 and got an early start.  It took some time to dig out my snow anchors since the snow froze up pretty good.  I packed up and started back to the saddle in the dark.  It was a quick hike down to parking lot.

I think my equipment is pretty good for next winter's snow camps.  I need a larger dry bag for my sleeping bag and liner in order to get more room inside my pack but everything worked great.

Humber Park

Saddle Junction

Tarp in the snow

My kitchen

Santa Cruz Island Kayaking

Ventura Harbor

Scorpion Harbor

Island fox

Park museum

Beach

Beach

Camp

Hike overlook

Looking down on harbor

Landing at Anacapa

Arch Rock

Winter Books

• Cowboy Cooking by Ken Rollins
• Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
• Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
• Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy
• The Spy and theTraitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
• From Makin toBougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War by Jon T. Hoffman
• The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare by Lian Ballantyne
• Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly
• Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt, Wherever you Are by David Livermore

HALT Winter Camp 2019

We had our best winter training camp ever this year!  Tons of snow and temperatures down to single digits made it a great time to be in the snow.
We were all able to dig snow caves although I made mine too short and kept hitting the roof as I slept in it.

Kitchen on a bear box under a few feet of snow

Rock Creek in winter

Low roof in my snow cave

Look up the canyon

Rich and me

Mason Valley Backpack

Second half of the Camelback award was at Mason Valley/Chariot Canyon section of the CRHT and some of the PCT out to Rodriguez Spur fire tank.
We had crazy cold, windy weather at the Pedro Fages Monument trailhead but it was nice once we got down into the canyon.

Harry the Hunk

Who knew Harry Houdini was so ripped!

Lost In Space Winter Camp

GLAAC puts on a great winter camp up at Eaton Scout Reservation in Lake Arrowhead.  We got rain, hail and snow along with archery, rifles and other outdoor activities!

Canyon Sin Nombre Backpack

Troop entry level backpack through some great desert terrain and slot canyons.

Redis on Docker for Windows

Go here for the full instructions: https://hub.docker.com/_/redis/.

1. Install Docker forWindow.
2. Download and start the image: docker run --name localredis -d redis
3. Get the IP address: when the docker starts on Windows, it will generate its own IP.  After docker launches, and the whale logo ASCII art shows up, the Docker IP address will be displayed (in this case 192.168.99.100).



4. The standard port (6379) won't be exposed to other apps so you have to figure out which port to use. So run docker ps. You will get a listing of the running containers with the ports. Notice that my redis instance has its standard port exposed on 32769.



5. Use the address and port you just discovered when configuring your client.

Joshua Tree CRHT Hike

For the first half of our Camelback award hike, the troop headed out to Joshua Tree NP to hike the California Riding and Hiking Trail.  We did the eastern part of the trail through the park a couple of years ago so this time we were doing the western section from Black Rock Canyon to Juniper Flats.

We drove up early Saturday morning and met up at the Black Rock campground.  There were already two other troops there getting ready to hike.  Two of use took a car and cached 10 gallons of water at Upper Covington trailhead.  This would be the end of first day's hike.  We then took three cars into to park and dropped off two of them at Juniper Flats.  The car shuttle out of the way, we started hiking.  This section of the park has more foliage than the rest.  We hiked among junipers, pines and the standard desert plants.  We made good time while steadily heading uphill.  Light was fading when we got to Upper Covington.  We then discovered that someone had taken half of our water - and left the empty jugs!  Luckily, since it wasn't that hot, we didn't need all the water but we packed everything up and headed up trail another half mile to a good camping spot.  After a nice dinner, it got dark and cold so we all went to bed early.

Next morning, we got up and heading out after a quick breakfast.  The hike was really nice as we headed down into a large wash.  The hardest part of the day was heading up the opposite wall of the canyon but once we all got up there, it was all cruiser trail to the cars.

First mile!

Great views

Camp near Upper Covington

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