Sierra Grand

... spring ski touring week. This time we chose the Sierra Nevada near the city of Granada. After some marvellous days in the Sierra and after getting to the top of the Mulhacen, the highest peak of the iberian penninunsula, we went to the andalucian coast ...

... in care a fost construit barajul este destul de adanc. La constructia barajului a fost si o opozitie puternica din partea clubului Sierra, unul dintre cele mai vechi cluburi de protectie a naturii din lume, intrucat acesta impreuna cu Echo Park Dam ...

... , the world’s largest tree.  They grow naturally only in this very specific location, 75 groves on the western side of the Sierra Nevada mountains at altitudes between 5000 and 7000 ft - not too wet, not too cold and not too dry.  Highly ...

... , artisans, shamans and militia. From the top of the mountain they ruled over the indigenous population of the Sierra Nevada. The mountainside city was constructed using sophisticated drainage techniques and the platforms are connected by a maze of ...

... . Old Fourah Bay College: Built in 1848, the oldest University in West Africa.  Scholars from all over Africa traveled to Sierra Leone to study there.  Only the stone foundation of the university remains, as a fire devastated it in 1999. Set ...

... yard so they were in and out. Saturday Barbie and I left David home and went to a Sushi class in Bisbee. We had a grand time and brought home dinner.Sunday was another cleaning, maintenance, and restocking day. Barbie had class on Monday so we will be ...

... " today. i'm going to have the sweetest 6-pack of abs if i continue to train like this for the Superior Trail Grand Prix (either that or a milkshake for innards). [break] Ishmael and i and another local staffer named Tomba spent the day ...

... befindet sich hier einer der grössten Frachhäfen des Atlantiks. Aber leider es nicht so einfach: mit Ausnahme der Skitour in der Sierra Nevada steht meine gesamte Reise unter einem ungünstigen Stern, da es sich eigentlich bei so ziemlich allen von mir ...

... gives it a lot of character compare to many "disneyland places". To me, this place stocked in between the Death Valley and the Sierra Nevada is the opportunity to come back to the same motel and same steakhouse where we had a good time a year earlier ...

Our double-decker retro train is like a silver bullet cutting through the American countryside - a very, very slow silver bullet. I could run faster. But the slow pace suits us as we cosy up in our seats and watch the scenery roll by: forested hillsides, ...

... nous emmener au Campo Pomex...Mission réussie. Réveil a 7h pour y aller. Apres une heure de route, nous arrivons devant un grand "champ" (plusieurs hectares en fait) de pierres érodées par le vent. Nous nous trouvons en face d´un champ de pierres ...

... now 30, 28, 26. Walter is 70 and has walked the C. 3 other times. He talks a lot and is amusing. He's been to the Grand Canyon too. A woman sitting at the table next to us is a M.D. and is writing a letter or in a journal. She has also walked from ...

... this stairway. I eventually get to a clearing - this is apparently where the town's people would have lived. Then there is a grand staircase, which leads up to the 'city centre', where the ceremonies were held and the royalty lived. This area is in a ...

... end of the night and Layla asks me¨"Don´t you have to catch the bus at 2am?" (It´s about 1230) "oh, yeah I´ll be grand..." Jim and I joke about how 40 min of sleep is "plenty of time"...yeah, I set my alarm....rolled over at about 4am...AHHHH! Run ...

... by early soldiers of the Mexican War) . Here there were the ruins of a five-story cliff dwelling built by the Sinagua (from sierra sin agua, the Spanish name for the mountains "without water") in stages in the period 1100-1400. Interesting because it is ...

... les touristes afflux et nous nous sauvons!   Nous traversons tout Yosemite Park par la route Tioga Road qui grimpe dans la sierra Nevada . Là encore à chaque virage il y a de quoi s'émerveiller . Nous surplombons la vallée le Yosemite Creek cette ...

... centre. We also saw pink flamingoes and several fresh water and semi fresh water lagoons. We took a ride up to the volcano Sierra Azul and Sierra Negro. It was raining on top of the volcano so we did not really hike around there but went back into the ...

... The lower Exum climb was fun and not too difficult, with many colorful rock types juxtaposed together, unlike in most of California's high Sierra the rock are big chunks of solid granite. At one section we caught on to another party of brothers from North ...

... a Spanish family. Couchsurfing my way through the south of Spain has landed me on the outskirts of Granada, at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and in the hearts and home of some very loving people.  A late night bus ride and 6km walk to the ...