Despite its somewhat fearful name, California's epic Desolation Wilderness is anything but desolate. As a sublime mountain wilderness preserve within Eastern California's Eldorado National Forest, the ...

It’s the day before the Fourth of July in Lake Tahoe. So naturally, it’s crowded. Traffic moves at a stop-and-go pace down the West Shore. As the road bends toward Sunnyside, a pair of bikini-clad ...