There are plenty of amazing places to camp in the Eastern Sierra. Camping at Whitney Portal is its own special category of outdoor adventure. If you’re planning to hike Mt. Whitney, tackle some high-elevation trails, or simply spend a few days surrounded by granite peaks and pine trees, chances are you’ll eventually find yourself at …
So you have decided to go for it, the outdoor lover’s ultimate fitness test: Summiting all of Mt Whitney at 14,505 feet. When it comes to training for Mt Whitney, those who have never summited before have so many questions. Training to summit Mt Whitney is a physical and mental challenge. You start with trekking …
After I’ve spent the day trekking up a fourteen-footer treacherous mountain, man, am I craving a hard-boiled duck egg or maybe a healthy Banana Gluten-Free Breakfast Muffin! As a health-conscious hiker, I know I deserve a tasty treat and I want it to be filling, delicious and have the nutrition to power my body all …
If you don’t start your birthday by puking in public you are just not having a good time. Right? That may be what I told myself as I froze my ass off at the top of a fourteen-hundred-foot mountain yesterday. Maybe I was just trying to distract myself from the biting wind chill in my …
On my 40th birthday after planning for months to scale one hell of a mountain peak, you can bet your ass I would enjoy some buffalo blue cheese something or other. I mean, that is, eventually, but first I had to hike twenty-four miles or so with over 6,000 feet elevation gain. I was excited …