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 …
As a always hungry foodie summertime can be a frustrating season. Man, I could go for a hot slice of cornbread with honey right now. But alas I won’t be baking cornbread until the fall when I get brave enough to turn my oven on again. The dog days of summer are not a great …
What a beautiful Big Bear day to go for a “Moderate” hike! And when you are training to summit the Big W (Mt Whitney) moderate might mean an eight-mile hike with close to 3,000 feet of altitude gain! On this Wednesday, it was time for yet another Mt Whitney training hike. Mt Whitney is the …
It’s been a long time since I limped around like an old donkey yet here I am again. I’ve decided to find my inner trail runner. She’s in here somewhere, hidden away for years between so much work, a new hobby of sourdough bread baking and betting on the ponies. This old donkey really needed …
The South Fork Lakes are a joke. And I don’t mean like a pangolin. Oh, maybe that was the South Park pandemic special. As I trekked up into the Golden Trout Wilderness this last week these were the thoughts I was pondering (And I was thinking the Comedy Central t.v. show with Cartman was called …