Stuck in the Long Valley Caldera

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and all major podcast apps. A few weeks ago, I was up in the Sierra Nevada mountains by myself for the weekend. I like doing that sometimes. The ski mountain I like is about five hours north of L.A. I usually leave town on a Friday night. On the way up, I sleep in my van at a rest stop or a campground on public land. And I wake up the next morning and the mountains are right there. On this trip, I decided that after a day of skiing, I was going to go explore the Long Valley Caldera. A caldera is basically a big depression caused by a volcano t

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