Our first night in the eastern sierras I’m proud to say I did not shit myself. I know, I know, not simple life goals that most people take for granite but I hate snakes and as soon as I approached the campsite creek the first creature I saw was a snake. Luckily it was a Gardner snake …
First Lake brought back a lot of memories. After all the trails I had hiked in the eastern sierras I hadn’t stepped foot in the sand of the North Fork Trail since I was twenty two. It was a glorious gorgeous hike but it made me sad for friends lost along the way, for a simpler time …
“Ninety two switch backs on Mt Whitney, ninety-two switchbacks! You hike up one, you’re calves ache, ninety-one switch backs on Mt Whitney” Two years ago was my first ascent of Mt Whitney, my first hike over 12,000 feet and my first over twenty miler. As I raced up the ninety-nine switchbacks of Mt Whitney, practically …
It’s forty-five degrees and I wish I was wearing shorts right now. I’ve been slugging up this long snowy hill for what feels like miles. It has actually been miles, four of them exactly since I left my car at the locked forestry gate shut down tight until the snow melts in the spring. That’s …
A tomato with blue eyes, a kitty cat and an Indian went on a forest walk about on Christmas Eve morning. No this is not a bad joke. The tomato is me (As my face was wind burned) Carly our pup was the kitty cat (As she comes when I say kitty kitty) and my …