
Spring in the High Sierra
Turkish Eggs
We arrived at our cabin on a sunny but nippy day at the end of April. Twelve-foot-high snow banks still lined our driveway, four feet

We arrived at our cabin on a sunny but nippy day at the end of April. Twelve-foot-high snow banks still lined our driveway, four feet

This winter has been extreme at our cabin. We’d already gotten 8’ of snow, and more was in the forecast. An avalanche destroyed one house

Mountains of fresh snow lured us back up to our cabin after a mere week in the city. We arrived on a Saturday afternoon

Our Alpine community was inundated by a blizzard this January. Nine atmospheric rivers flowed through the eastern Sierra, dumping about 8’ of snow over only

The falling snow was beautiful and magical, but relentless. We alternated shoveling the entrances to our cabin and keeping the driveway open

A storm that dropped three feet of snow over 24 hours had us cabin bound, except for brief periods outside to shovel snow and run

Accepting the invitation to Thanksgiving dinner at a relative’s home seemed weird—I always cook this meal—but, everyone would be there, so declining would have left

Steve was heading off on a business trip, leaving me the big decision of where to spend the week without him: in Los Angeles

The east side of the Sierra reliably displays an explosion of color during the first two weeks of October. After moving to Los Angeles from