Discussion about winter adventure sports in the Sierra Nevada mountains including but not limited to; winter backpacking and camping, mountaineering, downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, etc.
Yesterday "Sport" and I had a few hours to burn so we did a quick hike up the eastern side of Deso.
Sport at the Bayview Trailhead
There was plenty of snow on the trail.
The hike up to the lake was invigorating!
See the ice?
How much longer until we can ice fish?
We headed back down to the TH.
Nice View!
Another view.
We returned to the trailhead and then proceeded to hike to the falls.
Not a lot of snow here.
"Sport"
The falls were frozen.
Well, we had a good workout!
Eric, I know this should be filed under the "Winter Sports" tab, but I wanted those interested to see the current conditions (I type as the snow falls )
I hope you enjoyed my report.
-Russ
"...Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host and then a master?"
Nice one, Russ! The wife and I got out for the first time this past weekend with our 19mo daughter. Just a quick run around Wolverton with a kid carrier to see if the little one still liked the cold air ride on daddy's back. She liked it, but she's getting a little bit heavy for me to carry like that now. I've been doing some research on how to custom build a pulk out of a cheap plastic sled. Hoping that solves our problem and we can get out more with the kid this season; and some spots in the Tahoe area are on our to-do list for sure.
Just starting to think about easing the weight on back for doing something this Winter. There were some custom pulk builds shown on Youtube as well.
The one improvement I saw in one video was to bolt two runners towards the rear of the sled (aluminum angle stock) to provide side grip so your sled doesn't slide from side to side or down a hill.
Almost 30 years ago I built a pulk with a similar design. I used aluminum tubes though as I feared the pvc might be kind of brittle. Fit it with a backpack waist belt and even fitted aluminum runners on the bottom so it wouldn't slip sideways on a sideslope.
Mike
Mike
Who can't do everything he used to and what he can do takes a hell of a lot longer!
I didn't. Have the sled and some of the parts. The drought bummed me out and I lost momentum. If this season lives up to the hype, I'm sure I'll get my motivation back. Kids are perfect size/age now to tow behind on a good hike.
