2025 has been a year. I really don’t know what I did in life to deserve the shitstorm that 2025 has thrown at me. As I limped my way into 2025, a hiking guide with two busted up ankles, I thought, This too shall pass. Well, it’s now nine long chronic pain-filled months later, and …
If you, like I, are a fan of the most secluded California lake camping spots, then come with me on a California road trip adventure! So, off we jet-packed at 5 a.m., farting our way up Highway 395 (I swear, the dog’s just a natural gas factory), fueled by Raisin Bran and way too much …
Leave the rosé at home, lace up those dusty trail runners (preferably not the neon ones from 2012), and prepare to traipse through the Inyo Wilderness for four soul-cleansing days of pure, unfiltered nature. That means sweating until you cry, sleeping on a rock that’s pretending to be a sleeping pad, and wondering why you …
I can’t believe I’m typing this because camping, come on, bro, you don’t need a master’s degree to set up a tent! But it seems like most campers I meet are very unintelligent. That’s just my professional opinion, one week into a four-week-long camping trip. The big thing that stands out in my mind about …
Late August 2024. We were two weeks into our four-month-long summer vacation. So far, I had climbed Mt Whitney in a single day. I had also hiked over two hundred miles in thirty days. If anyone deserves an afternoon at a Carson Valley day spa, it was this sweaty hiker! The late summer of 2024 …