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…
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…
Goal for the day: Muir Trail Ranch! It was cold. Very cold. I didn’t expect it to be colder than…
Goal for the day: McClure Meadows Right after completing the John Muir Trail Southbound from Yosemite to Mt Whitney, I…