There is nothing like peeing in a alpine lake in October. Wait. No. There is nothing like peeing in an alpine lake in October while a pirate ship full of tourists pass you and they all smoke and wave. It’s the second week in October and …
I obviously had to decide to conquer Mt Whitney for the second time when I was in the worst shape I have been in, well, in at least three years. Seriously it was an effort to run two miles this morning, my calves and ankles were aching a mile up the huge steep trail …
It all started with those damn raccoons. Those damn, cute, adorable I want to hug them except they might be rapid, raccoon. I grew up at nearly seven thousand feet in a small mountain town. I did not have a typical childhood. I never sat in front of the TV watching Reading Rainbow or playing …
” The View from San Jacinto is the most sublime spectacle to be found anywhere on this earth” ~John Muir From my first ascent (Of many sure to come) of mighty San Jacinto Mountain last May. At the time this was the tallest mountain I had climbed at 10,834. The entire hike was over fourteen miles …
I had just fallen down a twenty foot snowy slope. Right after the fall I was still grasping my left hand, a little panicked that it might be broken but still hobbling slowly and carefully up hill. I don’t think I have ever hated switch backs like I did in that moment. Which …