Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall reports from the scene on books, writing . . . and life as she knows it.
That’s Al, barely visible between trees and rock on the trail at Yosemite. Photo 2011 by Barbara Falconer Newhall
By Barbara Falconer Newhall
Is the Yosemite high country even more beautiful than the Himalayas?
My hiking pal Al Aistrope thinks so. [Read more...]
We spent one of our days at nearby Inyo National Forest. Photos by Barbara Falconer Newhall
By Barbara Falconer Newhall, with a little help from her friends
Birthday hike in the snow at 10,000 feet. Last year's heavy snowfall still hadn't melted. Photo by Al Aistrope.
On my last birthday, in September, I had three wonderful days at Tuolumne Meadows and Inyo National Forest in the Sierra Nevada with two wonderful friends.
It was probably my best birthday ever — though there’s maybe some forgotten birthday back in my school days when I dressed up in a tafetta dress, put on my Sunday-best patent leather shoes, played pin the tail on the donkey and accepted wonderful gifts from my little girlfriends, also dressed up in tafetta and patent leather.
We were pretty, surely. But Tuolumne [Read more...]
