I put together a new Pacific Crest Trail Calendar. It covers PCT California Section G & H, with a side…
When at first you don’t succeed, try try again… Having learned from my failures to hike more than a single…
2023 was a strange year. The huge winter snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains made planning treks in the mountains…
Update: Additional PCT hikes added (days 10-19 and 20-23) as well as additional movies from those days. Next weekend I’m…
List of the 14er (summits over 14,000 feet) and higher summits I’ve climbed (listed in chronological order): Mt Whitney –…
This summer’s big trek was supposed to be through the Japan Alps and maybe a third climb up Mt Fuji….
Master post with links to trek reports and Flickr albums for each day of my John Muir Trail trek in…
Backpackers tend to learn to do without items the more they spend hiking. I’ve slowly learned to minimize what I…
Primary Goal: Donahue PassSecondary Goal: Thousand Island Lake So, my decision to NOT go all the way to Tuolumne Meadows…
Goal for the day: Thousand Island Lake and the completion of section H! Had some nice views of the stars…
Goal for the day: High Trail Ridge I was late getting out of Reds Meadow. It wasn’t that I over…
Goal for the day: Reds Meadow After a nice night near Duck Lake Pass, I woke up and headed North…
Goal for the day: Somewhere beyond Duck Pass I woke up knowing I was two days away from Reds Meadow,…
Goal for the day: Silver Pass or beyond After waking up and crossing Mono Creek, it was mostly a hike…
Goal for the day: Mono Creek Maybe because it had been a long hike the previous day, I enjoyed the…
I woke up and it was freezing again outside for the third night in a row… Fortunately, I was in…