Folks, I should get a video camera and start v-logging. And yet I’m not convinced I could distinctly stand apart from the legions of YouTubers who have garnered their “fifteen minutes” in the vaporous, shifting online world. After all, one needs to have the kind of chutzpah, that brash combination of Type-A showmanship and spot-on […]

With over thirty years of trail hiking under my (steadily more prodigious) belt, you can imagine that I’ve experienced a number of close encounters of the critter kind. Given the time and daylight, I will often stop to study those that will stay relatively still long enough for a close examination, whether they be newts […]

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Unlike the Publishers Clearinghouse […]

[Editor’s note: Since I wrote this post, I interviewed the proprietors of Clif Bar Family Winery, Kit Crawford and Gary Erickson. See my follow-up post of April, 2008 titled Chewing the fat with Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford of Clif Bar Family Winery, which includes reviews of four Clif Bar wines.]
When I’m out on a hike, I […]

Off to the high country
Tomorrow morning four of us will be tooling up Highway 88 into the Sierra Nevada mountains for two days of camping and hiking bliss in the California Alps.
(tags: hiking camping wine altitude attitude high country sierra round top winehiker http://www.californiawinehikes.com)

You can be healthwise AND decadent in the California wine country
There’s such […]

There’s almost nothing I like better than a good hike and wine tasting with friends. Except for when I’m doing both above 8000 feet.
 
Tomorrow morning four of us will be tooling up Highway 88 into the Sierra Nevada mountains for two days of camping and hiking bliss in an area south of Lake Tahoe that the locals affectionately […]

From cartoonist Steve Greenburg comes this gem that once appeared in an issue of the Ventura County Star. Click to enlarge for easier reading.
 
‘Nuff said.
Source: cagle.com
~winehiker

From this morning’s Bay Area Living section of InsideBayArea.com comes an article from Mary Babbitt, host of NBC-TV’s syndicated Sunday evening show, In Wine Country. Mary’s column today discusses outdoor alternatives to the decadence that is often associated with wine country travel. In essence, when you visit the wine country, you don’t have to escape a […]

Welcome new subscribers! Since the first day of July when I launched my Win a bottle of Dominus Estate contest, I’ve been delighted to see a number of new Winehiker Witiculture readers. Apparently the temptation of a bottle of Dominus Estate 2004 Napa Valley really appeals to a great many of you. (I know it does […]

Drought a drain in wine country
From USATODAY.com: parts of the California wine country are in a drought, or near-drought, and face the prospect of mandatory restrictions. What will it mean for grape growers this year?
(tags: drought dry rain weather grape crop harvest 2007 conservation)