Wandering the Earth

...one tiny step at a time

Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) Section Hikes 2024 – Walker Pass to Mt Whitney to Kearsarge Pass (and beyond?)

When at first you don’t succeed, try try again… Having learned from my failures to hike more than a single…

Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) Section Hikes 2023

2023 was a strange year. The huge winter snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains made planning treks in the mountains…

Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) Section Hikes 2022 – Tuolumne Meadows to Donner Pass (updated)

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 my 14er and Higher Conquests

List of the 14er (summits over 14,000 feet) and higher summits I’ve climbed (listed in chronological order): Mt Whitney –…

Colorado 2021

This summer’s big trek was supposed to be through the Japan Alps and maybe a third climb up Mt Fuji….

JMT 2020 Trek Day by Day

Master post with links to trek reports and Flickr albums for each day of my John Muir Trail trek in…

Tanzania 2019 Reports

All of my Tanzania 2019 Reports in one place.

Yosemite Donahue Pass October 2024

Primary Goal: Donahue PassSecondary Goal: Thousand Island Lake So, my decision to NOT go all the way to Tuolumne Meadows…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 19 – That was easy… too easy…

Goal for the day: Thousand Island Lake and the completion of section H! Had some nice views of the stars…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 18 – A bridge too far

Goal for the day: High Trail Ridge I was late getting out of Reds Meadow. It wasn’t that I over…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 17 – Red Cones, Reds Meadow, Red can of Coca-Cola!

Goal for the day: Reds Meadow After a nice night near Duck Lake Pass, I woke up and headed North…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 16 – I still don’t know what a Tully Hole is

Goal for the day: Somewhere beyond Duck Pass I woke up knowing I was two days away from Reds Meadow,…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 15 – Another day, another pass

Goal for the day: Silver Pass or beyond After waking up and crossing Mono Creek, it was mostly a hike…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 14 – Where’s the Bear?

Goal for the day: Mono Creek Maybe because it had been a long hike the previous day, I enjoyed the…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 13 – I should have stayed in bed

I woke up and it was freezing again outside for the third night in a row… Fortunately, I was in…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 12 – One giant leap over a river

Goal for the day: Muir Trail Ranch! It was cold. Very cold. I didn’t expect it to be colder than…

PCT 2024 Section H Day 11 – Down is easy… right?

Goal for the day: McClure Meadows Right after completing the John Muir Trail Southbound from Yosemite to Mt Whitney, I…

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