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And it's back, with new and different art. Lots of fun. www.backpackthesierra.com/post/napa-lighted-art-show

It's been a while since i posted some of mine...

PUNKWOOD asked: What are your typical Southwest haunts? We've been all over the Southwest, but most places are at least a two day drive from home, so they require a bit of an expedition. And it always seems as if we don't have enough time once we get there! Death Valley many times, as well as...

I'll be teaching this spring, so no long trips to the Southwest in 2026. But I have most of the summer in the Sierra. I plan to spend a lot of it as a volunteer in various wildernesses--I've earned permission to pretty much write my own ticket there, so I will hike a ton of trails, identify any...

I've written before about how the reservation systems for our parks seem to struggle with the way people use them. We frequently camp in campgrounds that are "full" according to the reservation system--with every campsite taken. And yet we find as much as 30% of the campsites are not occupied...

Like Scatman, my year turned out pretty different from what I had hoped/planned/expected. Here's what I posted a year ago: And what really happpened. After doing the Camino Primitive in Spain in 2023, my daughter and I are looking at the Lycian Way in Turkey in 2025. Didnt' happen, as she...

Not taken with your RB67

The audible version of the first book in this series, Danger: Falling Rocks, has just been released: https://www.backpackthesierra.com/post/danger-falling-rocks-is-on-audible

I still shop occasionally at REI, but the mojo I have lost is the lust for new gear. I have good gear, and I am happy with it. If anything, I'd like to use it more often. But window shopping--either live or online--doesn't appeal to me.

Great report. You were sensationally lucky with the weather in this part of the world! My daughter and I hiked the Camino Primitivo to Santiago two years ago. Until the last two days when we we met up with the main Camino and it's hordes, most of the hiking was on trails or dirt roads...and...

Amazing story in the Guardian of a woman's astonishing determination after a nearly fatal fall on Mount Whitney: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/21/fell-at-the-top-of-mountain-trekked-for-five-days-with-broken-spine-in-snowstorm

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-shutdown-illegal-activities-21093093.php

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-shutdown-illegal-activities-21093093.php

Nice work. Lower Ottoway is my favorite lake in the park. You did well to camp there!

I wish there were more!

For comparison, these were identified by a backcountry ranger as puma tracks:

Those do look like puma tracks to me. Coyote or dog prints have clear claw/toe marks, and the ones in your photo do not. Depending on size, they could also be bobcat...