Why you should never give yourself a sponge bath while drinking. I am officially the dirty camper. I thought before on hiking trips those days and days of camping fun that I knew what being the dirty camper was. Even though I have jumped in crisp cold alpine lakes and frolicked beneath water falls nearly …
It was nearing high noon in the Eastern Sierras and we had been hiking what felt like straight up a mountain for hours. This was no normal hike. As my hiking boots crushed into the soft sand of the trail I felt every pound of the heavy pack on my back that carried my belongings …
I should probably not make myself off as a complaining little scalawag. The kind of wench who steals pillows and lamp shades from hotel rooms but the Creek Side Inn located in Bishop had it coming to them. We also had a fantastic reason for needing the pillows (we didn’t actually steal lamp shades; I was …
I thought I heard a person talking to me this morning on the Whitney Trail. I had been hiking alone for more than an hour. That would seem like to early to get the Mt Whitney crazies but I had been drinking Chipmunk Juice. (Jack 3D Work Out Supplement) I stopped at about 10,000 feet …
It’s hard to believe two months ago I climbed most of Mt Whitney. Today on this sweltering hot fall morning I fought my way a mile up trail before I had to turn around to go to work and believe me it was rough. The last …