by Allan | Sep 14, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
From my first days planning this summer, I wanted to visit a particular remote hot spring in Nevada. Larry Crutcher, a longtime solar installer out of Yuma, Arizona, last year sent me a picture of some old graybeard (him) in a tub outdoors with mountains in the...
by Allan | Sep 12, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
In the last few posts I have described my experiences away from the solar work for White Mountain Research Center, all based on my Labor Day weekend at Echo Lake Camp and the riding to get there and back. In this post I’m describing the changes that accompany my...
by Allan | Sep 10, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
The last two days have been full – especially of riding the Beemer. In reverse order: I’m camping tonight at Porcupine Creek CG on the high road in Yosemite NP. This is one of the three most primitive campgrounds in the park. I haven’t camped...
by Allan | Sep 8, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
I spent three days at the City of Berkeley’s Echo Lake Camp. Even though I knew nobody, I felt at home with the spirit of family camp that I had known as a child and teen, and that I shared with my own family maybe ten years ago. That camp had been Tuolumne,...
by Allan | Sep 7, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
This long-delayed post begins on Thursday, the evening of September 3rd. I haven’t posted what has been happening in my life on the mountain for nearly two weeks; the last post about Bodie chronicled my last motorcycle trip. I took that 5-day trip while waiting...
by Allan | Sep 2, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
My post about my motorcycle trip week before last stopped the night before I visited the ghost town of Bodie, and before continuing with current posts I want to share some photos I took there. Several people had encouraged me to visit this preserved ghost town, which...
