When you get lemons make lemonade! When you catch craw fish make jambalaya! But wait! What if you catch some tiny lake trout as well and also have left over Greek yogurt, feta and madras curry powder? Well than you have to make craw fish vindaloo! …
You know you are an inventive cook when you can make a gourmet meal out of nothing. The boys I’m hiking Mt Whitney with are hours behind me ( I hope!) on the trail still. I got back something like three hours before them and that is with taking long and frequent …
Finally, Trail Crest, all 13,000 feet of it. I may not have made it to the top of the mountain today! But I put up one hell of a fight! Last year I did this hike in something like 14 hours and I had grand plans to do it a lot faster …
I’m resting I’m finally resting. My day started at four a.m. By 4:30 I had three liters of water in my pack and a hiking pole in each hand. I was going to summit Mt Whitney. Again. I was headed up the Whitney Portal Trail with two friends and we …
“Go eat a fish ass hole!” Little did I know the furry masked bandit I was yelling at in the camp at three a.m. was the least of our problems as I wrestled the bag of tortilla chips away from him and headed back to my tent that had been slight warm ten …