22 Thursday Aug 2013
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campground, camping, campsite, Cuyamaca, family, hiking, mountains, nature, outdoors, paso picacho, san diego, State Park, vacation
You’ve heard me talk about it several times- Paso Picacho campground at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park in east San Diego. If you’re looking for a great campground that has bathrooms, great hikes, large camp sites, picnic area, and takes reservations, Paso Picacho is perfect for you! Here are the features Continue reading
11 Monday Mar 2013
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adventure, camping, cuyamaca rancho state park, nature, outdoor, outdoors, outside, paso picacho, photo, photography, preparing, snow, snow camping, winter
If any of you saw my Snow Camping blog, let me say this: camping with snow on the ground and camping while its snowing are two totally different things!! This trip this past weekend was the most challenging, yet epic, camping weekend! I didn’t even listen to some of my snow camping quick tips (shame on me) but I learned a whole lot more on how to prepare for real snow camping! Here are the highlights of our trip: Continue reading
08 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in Camping Trips, Tips
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camping, cold weather, cuyamaca rancho state park, hiking, nature, outdoor, paso picacho, snow camping, trip, winter
Today we are headed back up to one of our favorite spots- Paso Picacho at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park! We are doing a little more preparing than usual because a storm is supposed to hit while we are there! I wanted to share some quick tips for camping in the snow 🙂 Continue reading
24 Sunday Feb 2013
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camping, cuyamaca rancho state park, hiking, nature, outdoor, paso picacho, san diego, snow, stonewall peak
This weekend we did an impromptu camping trip to Cuyamaca Rancho State Park at Paso Picacho. San Diego’s mountains were hit with a good amount of snow last week so we couldn’t pass up the opportunity! Unfortunately, we under-estimated how much snow might be there! It’s 5,000 feet elevation so you can only imagine! We got there around 8:30 PM and the grounds were covered- if we drove my little Huyndai, we wouldn’t have been able to get into the spots because snow was piled so high!
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25 Friday Jan 2013
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beauty, campground, camping, Cuyamaca, nature, outdoors, paso picacho, photo, photography
For past camping trips, we were so fixated on prospecting for gold that we never opened our eyes to the beauty around us! Here is a glimpse of the beauty at Paso Picacho campground at Cuyamaca in east San Diego! Continue reading
