Today is the final Adventures With Candace Blog. It was back on September 22, 2012 when the first one was published on Sierra News Online and in case you are wondering, it was about a hike up to Dana Plateau. The blog has come a long way since then with improved photography and mapping tools. Somewhere along the line, I made a goal for myself to do the blog for 10 years and now I am there.

Thank you to all of the SNO readers for reading and helping to make the blog better. Your ideas were integral, helping to make the information much more user friendly over the years. It would not have been what it is today without you.

Since this is the final blog, I thought you might like to hear some personal things about me such as how I got the adventure bug, along with my interest in history and what I plan on doing after the blog.

How did I get interested in hiking and outdoorsy things? You may know that I retired from CALFire, but the adventuring started long before that. My parents always took our family camping so I started at a young age. This pic of me with Mom and Dad was taken at deer camp when I was about a year old. I don’t know how my mom did it with us little kids.

Throughout the years we did a lot of camping and fishing.

And my family traveled, seeing all kinds of interesting places along the way.

Something as simple such as a Sunday bike ride along the Sutter Buttes was also a fun event. Look Mom, no hands!

And we had horses, cow, pigs,…