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McDonald Peak – Dawn with Five Mountain Ranges as the View

The trip to the top of McDonald Peak (10,089 ft.) in the Sawtooth Range is a 3,200 vertical foot ascent all in snow.  McDonald sits between Alturas and Pettit Lakes and look directly across the valley at Horton Peak of the White Cloud Mountain Range. The round-trip effort of 24+ hours includes a dawn […]

Great Content in Once in a Great City

David Maraniss (When Pride Still Mattered) demonstrates again why he is one of America’s best at researching and providing the narrative for a story.

His book Once in A Great City is a story about America and its greatest industrial city and their associations and direct connections from the vantage point of 1963. […]

Skiing in the Backcountry and Your Backyard

One of the great benefits of a batch of early season snowstorms is that skiing peaks and ridgelines with significant vertical could be had merely by walking out of the house.  In some cases this means literally (i.e., Lubeck Ridge 1,200 vertical) or figuratively as in drive the car for a mile or so, park and […]