Tablelands Traverse
A perfect Sierra weather report suddenly materialized in early October 2022. I dropped everything I was doing and set to finalize a route that I had been sketching through the Tablelands East of the...
Category: Backpacking
Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one’s back, while hiking for more than a day. It is often but not always an extended journey, and may or may not involve camping outdoors.
Backpacking Cottonwood Lakes, Crabtree Pass, Siberia, and Funston
I’ve been meaning to start a trip from the Horseshoe Meadows / Cottonwood Lakes Trail head – which I’d never done before. With the exception of the trip to Funston Lake, this route follows...
Circumnavigation of the Palisade Crest
For a long time, I have wanted to visit the Palisade Glacier. Everyone knows that glaciers are shrinking and vanishing, so I figured it would be a good idea to check out this noteworthy...
Glacier Divide Backpack – Lamarck Col
For a while, I had been looking at Lamarck Col as a way to make a loop around the Glacier Divide. On some maps, it is shown as a trail. On others, the route...
Backpack Dinky Lakes
In July 2021, I was interested in seeing a new part of the Sierra: The Dinky Lakes region. This is a pretty low-key trip all on trails… so this is more of a trip...
The Condor Trail (Leg One)
One day Janet and I were bikepacking some remote trails in the Los Padres National Forest and we met a couple who told us they were hiking the Condor Trail. Once we got home...
Aborted JMT attempt with Steve
My friend Steve wanted to do a “fastpack” of the John Muir Trail. He aimed to do the trip in about 6 days. He wanted some company, and this sounded exciting to me, so...
