I had some pretty fancy dreams of summiting Mt Whitney today for the second time. Sometimes dreams just don’t come true. Sometimes your heart is just beating so fast, your asthma is kicking in and your feet fucking hurt. I literally pushed myself to my limit today and I had to …
It’s seven am and the sun has almost risen over Old Greyback. I’ve been hiking since 5:30 and been up since three a.m. when I threw back the covers, turned on the lights and my angry cats howled at me in discontent. I had to hit the road. I had mountains …
I obviously had to decide to conquer Mt Whitney for the second time when I was in the worst shape I have been in, well, in at least three years. Seriously it was an effort to run two miles this morning, my calves and ankles were aching a mile up the huge steep trail …
” The View from San Jacinto is the most sublime spectacle to be found anywhere on this earth” ~John Muir From my first ascent (Of many sure to come) of mighty San Jacinto Mountain last May. At the time this was the tallest mountain I had climbed at 10,834. The entire hike was over fourteen miles …
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 …