Outdoors
Four days into a 50-mile winter trek, our team reached a steep and formidable ice slope. We quickly recognized this grade as our most hazardous obstacle so far. To climb it, we would have to risk a wild slide down the incline that would drop a skier several hundred feet, and not gently.
Twenty-thousand years ago, the most prominent mineral in the Sierra Nevada was ice. The Sierra, in the ice age, was under a massive burden. Gl…
In 1948, commemorating the centennial of James Marshall’s discovery of gold in California, the state Division of Mines handed Gov. Earl Warren…
Where the 49ers found gold was later described as part of the Sierran or Mother Lode Gold Belt, a term used to label a 120-mile long, mile-wid…
