Sierra Nevada: The Range of Light & Fast FOMO —Fear Of Missing Out—I have it, in the form of an extreme case. Years ago, when we first settled in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada, the FOMO came on strong. Living in such close proximity to so many mountain sport options, how could it not? Each day [...]
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Running the Sierra Nevada John Muir Trail
Sierra Nevada Endurance Testing Grounds by John Stamstad, part 2 Sleep deprivation is a pretty fascinating thing. Everywhere I looked, inanimate objects were moving, even the rocks, they just kept shifting around. The big rocks looked like tents, I mean they looked exactly like tents. I would stop and go up to them, usually say, [...]
Sierra spring skiing with friends
Yesterday was a classic spring day in California’s Sierra Nevada. Even though it was my countless day skiing in conditions like this, I still marvel at these amazing days of warmth, abundant corn snow, and the fact that here one can drop to the car from a wintry landscape and slip on shorts and flip [...]
Skiing California Sierra Nevada Fourteeners
Skiing the Eastern Sierra Nevada Fourteeners by David Page with photos courtesy Christian Pondella This article first appeared in EastSide Magazine From a distance it looked perfect. Perfectly epic. But from the summit, with skis on, looking down at an enormous chockstone wedged into the trap door of a fifty-five degree couloir, nine thousand vertical feet above the [...]



