I just wanted to be nice to the old lady. Call it senior citizen day, call it Happy Old Bitch Day, I honestly don’t care what you call it but I thought I would be a sweet heart and take the old lady for a swim at Lake Powell. It was 106 degrees at 7 in …
“Ninety two switch backs on Mt Whitney, ninety-two switchbacks! You hike up one, you’re calves ache, ninety-one switch backs on Mt Whitney” Two years ago was my first ascent of Mt Whitney, my first hike over 12,000 feet and my first over twenty miler. As I raced up the ninety-nine switchbacks of Mt Whitney, practically …
Of the ten people I hiked Mt Whitney with I was the only one who did not get altitude sickness and all it’s awesome side effects. I might not have had the chance to live through side effects like nausea, dizzyness, severe head aches and numbness in extremities but I still have to say …
Before hiking Mt Whitney last week, the Lone Pine Forest Rangers instructed our group that any one hiking the Mt Whitney Trail had to use a Wag Bag to get rid of their human waste on the mountain. At the Lone Pine Ranger Station they had a delightful diagram showing just how to …
14,505 feet. I never imagined that I would ever stand atop a mountain top that high. I never in my life could imagine how spectacular the views of Sequoia National Park could be from that elevation. I never knew how physically tough ninety nine switchbacks could be as my legs powered through them. I never …