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In SEKI at Twin Lakes; And in Red Rock Canyon St Park (CA, not NV) Note--flush toilet, but open to the sky!

Yosemite has public tranportation from Fresno and Merced. Fresno has an airport and Merced has rail connections via Amtrak. Lake Tahoe has public transit or shuttles to trailheads accessible via buses from Reno. SEKI has public transport in the summer from both Fresno and Visalia...

Stovepipe Wells campground is large and as one ranger told me "I have never seen it completely full,." It is basically one large parking lot, but you can camp there, it has restrooms, and it's centrally located for lots of good hikes: Mosaic Canyon, Marble Canyon,e tc. Sunset is simllar and is...

More beautiful photos. Thanks for posting all of this. It made for a nice summer vacation in February

Really nice. I always love the photos taken near dusk. That is a magic time in the Sierra, and captures the serenity I feel after a day of hiking!

https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/6utzsC1K Ranger appreciation day...

This is not good. The fox supervising the henhouse: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-nominates-scott-socha-national-park-service For those who might have forgotten, Delaware North's management of Yosemite National Park concessions was not a success. And when they lost the...

Mariposa Trails, an organization that is working hard to restore the network of trails just west of Yosemite National Park, is holding a trail crew weekend on February 21-23. The group will meet at the Hite Cove Trailhead by the historic Savage's Trading Post about twenty miles east of the town...

These reports from Laura and Rob Pilewski, rangers stationed in Tuolumne Meadows over the winter, are always a good read. And they come out every week! https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/update-for-january-28-2026.htm

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