Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes 39 miles over 4 days from Tuolumne Meadow to Happy Isles
Category: California
John Muir Trail – Section 3
Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes 54 miles over 5 days from Muir Trail Ranch to Red’s Meadow.
John Muir Trail – Section 2
Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutes 87 miles over 8 days from Independence to Muir Trail Ranch
The John Muir Trail – Section 1
Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutes Section 1 of 4:
75 miles over 7 days from Cottonwood Lakes Trailhead to Independence
South Lake > North Lake
Estimated Reading Time: 12 minutes A 63 mile one way hike in the Eastern Sierras completed over 6 days and 5 nights.
Benson Loop
Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes A 60 mile loop through Hoover Wilderness and northeast Yosemite National Park over 7 days and 6 nights.
Desolation Wilderness, Tahoe
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes A 32 mile loop in Desolation Wilderness over 4 days and 3 nights.
Mountains, Marbles and Mosaics
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Up and out of the tent at 7am. There was already a procession of weekend campers looking for available sites – slim pickings. After breakfast we drove from our campsite at sea level to Dante’s View at 5,476ft and had views of snowcovered peaks across the valley that stood over 11,000ft. We’d hoped to see Telescope…
A most excellent day
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The wind dropped around 3 am. Hurrah!!!! Waking up covered in a fresh layer of dust we cleaned up as best we could, had breakfast and tried to come up with a plan for the day. We were feeling a little discombobulated; we hadn’t planned to come to Death Valley, so we hadn’t done any research,…
From one storm to another
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The wind abated a little overnight but it was still windy and the temperature was barely above freezing when we got up just after 7 am. We had planned to skip breakfast at camp in favor of picking something up once we were on the road but we weren’t sure how long that could be…