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 …
I think I see vultures circling I’m laying flat across a giant boulder in the shade trying to soak in the granites cold ness and trying to not breath so fast, hyperventilate and pass out. Some where on the switch backs above me I’m sure Jenn is doing the same thing. I …
Any one who knows me knows if in hungry you better get the hell out of my way. My friends who hike with me bring extra snacks because no one wants to deal with Amber’s attitude if she runs out of food four miles from the car. I have a big appetite …
I had just fallen down a twenty foot snowy slope. Right after the fall I was still grasping my left hand, a little panicked that it might be broken but still hobbling slowly and carefully up hill. I don’t think I have ever hated switch backs like I did in that moment. Which …
If I wrote a country song about my life this morning I would entitle that song Am I to High for Ticks? Thankfully after today’s ten mile hike not a tick was spotted. Last week I was sick with the flu and the Mountaineer Adventure Outdoor Fun Club Yea went on an adventure with out …