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To celebrate the yearly reminder that I'm way older than I ever wanted to be, I signed up with a local meetup group for a brutal day hike - the east and more distant end of the Hurricane Deck. The organizer called it "El Marathon de los Muertos" because it was 26 miles, occurred on the Latin...

My Rainier buddy Pryor was in town shortly after our big trip. Being an avid climber from Leadville, CO, he was ready for 14,000' in the high Sierra. We left my place in Pismo Beach alittle after 3:00 a.m., and, after getting lost in Tehachapi, we made it to the Lone Pine Interagency Center a...

OK--since people seemed to have enjoyed my last post about Green Lakes, here's another trip report from this summer: a wonderful trip to the southern side of the Cathedral Range in Yosemite. Because there are no marked trails through here, this area gets a lot less traffic than trails just a...

This weekend we visited Yosemite with a visitor from Italy--one who wasn't sure she wanted to spend the night in the wilderness---so we took her on a few day hikes. And had a wonderful time. That's Taft Point and El Capitan below Admittedly, the waterfalls in Yosemite are barely trickles...

New here, but thought I'd give a boost to the Sierra Nevada with a post about our last trip out of the east side trailhead, Green Creek. The trail up to Green Lake is a very pleasant stroll up the canyon. Some of it runs alongside Green Creek, and none of it gets too steep. You couldn't ask...

Back in july my girl and i went down to San Francisco to visit her grandparents. On the way there we were able to camp for two nights in Yosemite, and do a little hiking. Not quite as much as i would have liked, but you know, it's never enough. We slept at a rest stop on the way down, and then...

Top of the Contiguous USA Friday - Tuesday, August 22-26, 2014 Mount Whitney- at 14,508 feet it is the highest mountain peak in the contiguous United States. While I have always thought about climbing to the summit of Mount Whitney at some point in my life, I really had never seriously planned...

This past weekend I made my first adventure into the Eastern Sierras. For my solo trip this year I chose Sabrina Basin in the John Muir Wilderness. SR 168 runs west on a beautiful paved road out of Bishop, CA. En route to TH there are about 5 campgrounds one could crash if need to acclimate...

In July 2006 we did a trans-sierra hike through Royce Lakes on the east side over through Bear Lakes Wilderness and out the west side at Bear Creek Trailhead. It was a 3 night trip. Typical great Sierra weather. This is my first post, been watching all of the trip reports for a couple years...

Stan and I recently celebrated 9 years together by hiking in the Eastern Sierra. Nothing adventurous in this trip, just a lot of relaxation and enjoying the outdoors. The Sierra Nevada has two distinct regions-the Western Sierra, which is very forested and lush because it creates a rain...

In May I had planned to solo Velma, Dicks & Fontanillis Lake loop in Desolation Wilderness; near South Lake Tahoe. Before the weekend of trip my sinus infection that has been lingering all winter came back to bite me. So, on the off-chance Mark could head out in June I inquired, with...

Shakedown. There's a hilarity in seeing the SUV you at age 19 broke by driving over an eight-inch retaining wall morph in its elder years into a legitimate trail machine. My parents' ugly gold Exploder, the car I was driving when I started dating my college girlfriend, when my close friends...

Just after the stroke of midnight I set off for Sequoia National Park on my first solo packing adventure. Arriving at Lodgepole Ranger station about an hour early I had time to ponder if my original trip was a bit too much to chew; buddy and I had planned a 5 day trip over Silliman Pass with...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 9 & 10 Sunday & Monday, February 17-18, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO For my last morning in Death Valley I decided to head back up to Dante's View to catch the sunrise. Glow on the horizon. Morning Color by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr The Earth...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 8 Saturday, February 16, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Today would be my last full day in Death Valley National Park. I spent the day visiting a few popular areas of the park I had skipped over earlier in the week so I could at least check them out...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 7 Friday, February 15, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After spending much of the week exploring Death Valley and not running into many people, things would finally change today. I would start seeing quite a few more people and even getting stuck...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 6 Thursday, February 14, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Thursday morning I was up early (yet again!) and hiking back to the Sky Rock petroglyphs well before the sun would come up for the day. I was hoping to capture the photo of Sky Rock that I...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 5 Wednesday, February 13, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Up before dawn again...I'm not really sure when I became a morning person? When I got in my Jeep after taking down camp, the LCD screen in my dashboard told me it was 23 degrees out, the...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 4 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO As usual, I was up and taking down my campsite while it was still dark out. Thanks to the long nights this time of the year I still managed to get plenty of sleep and was wide awake. I drove back...

Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 3 Monday, February 11, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO My alarm woke me up a few hours before sunrise on Monday morning. I quickly got my camp loaded back in the Jeep and started the short drive over to the popular Zabriskie Point. As usual, I was the...