I can see now why no hikers dare to trek up to the Laurel Lakes. I feel like after so many years hiking to all of the different lakes of the high sierra’s, I’ve hiked to all of the most scenic lakes. Laurel Lakes beckoned me because it was something new that I hadn’t done …
It is a beautiful morning in the eastern sierra’s to be a mongrel on the trail. Good morning Sabrina Basin; This pup/terrier/ or what the hell is she? Is Inyo. It was a good morning anyways until I realized we were the only leave no trace hikers on this trail and we might be on …
What on God’s green earth does an outdoor adventurer do when the outdoors are closed to the public? I’m the kind of wanderlust filled hiker who hikes every day, rain, sleet, snow, COVID, I just don’t stop. I mean unless unprecedented southern California wildfires close all the forests within three hundred miles. What the hell …
I pulled my aching body out of bed before dawn to go on a big ass hike. It was a few weeks into our month-long vacation, I mean, if you consider vacation hiking twenty miles every few days (Which I do!) I did not arise sleepy from the RV at dawn so my dog could …
Six a.m. on the sagebrush thick trails near Sherwin Creek and thunderheads were forming in the distance near Bishop, California, big time. I’ve never in my life as a long-distance hiker been afraid of a little thunderstorm, so of course, I just kept on hiking up the deserted mountain trail. Truth be told I simply …