Category : Hiking
High Sierra Fever
October 1, 2011
By Leonie Sherman How do you explain to the cutest, most awesome climber boy that you can’t date him because you are more in love with a mountain range than you can ever hope to be with a human? My first date with Adam was four days of kayaking around Lake Tahoe and before we even kissed I was already breaking up with him. “I really like you,” I mumbled. “But I have this dream of mountain-climbing from way south in the Sierra to northern Yosemite. Read More ...
October 1, 2011
By Leonie Sherman How do you explain to the cutest, most awesome climber boy that you can’t date him because you are more in love with a mountain range than you can ever hope to be with a human? My first date with Adam was four days of kayaking around Lake Tahoe and before we even kissed I was already breaking up with him. “I really like you,” I mumbled. “But I have this dream of mountain-climbing from way south in the Sierra to northern Yosemite. Read More ...
Errett Allen: “Nature’s Power"
October 1, 2011
Their luck held out, for a while. . . Read More ...
October 1, 2011
Their luck held out, for a while. . . Read More ...
Leave Your Burdens Behind: Fastpacking in Yosemite
August 1, 2011
Scanning the faces of this streaming tableau of vacationers, I see it all — joy and awe, discomfort and heat exhaustion, feigned happiness and teenage boredom. I work as an outdoor educator and it’s my job to provide these folks with opportunities to get up close and personal with the park’s natural features. With games and activities, I try to pique the crowd’s interest in learning about the waterfalls they’re about to visit. Read More ...
August 1, 2011
Scanning the faces of this streaming tableau of vacationers, I see it all — joy and awe, discomfort and heat exhaustion, feigned happiness and teenage boredom. I work as an outdoor educator and it’s my job to provide these folks with opportunities to get up close and personal with the park’s natural features. With games and activities, I try to pique the crowd’s interest in learning about the waterfalls they’re about to visit. Read More ...
Tahoe Day Hike
July 1, 2010
If executed with rigor this 19-mile hike through Desolation Wilderness in summer offers an ennobling out-of-body experience that approximates a sadist session scolding for the true penitent. Forget camping, backpacks and a scrumptious lunch. If you’re going to take on 19 miles of agony between dawn and dusk its best to feel as light on your feet as you possibly can. Read More ...
July 1, 2010
If executed with rigor this 19-mile hike through Desolation Wilderness in summer offers an ennobling out-of-body experience that approximates a sadist session scolding for the true penitent. Forget camping, backpacks and a scrumptious lunch. If you’re going to take on 19 miles of agony between dawn and dusk its best to feel as light on your feet as you possibly can. Read More ...
Tom Stienstra: Ambassador to the Outdoors
July 1, 2010
And I asked myself, “What am I doing with my life?” He realized that life as a spectator/sportswriter was no life for him. The thought of a career sitting on his bum, watching and writing about a few lucky men playing a game, struck him as ultimate boredom, the personal equivalent of caging a wild animal. Little more than a year later, Stienstra was tipped that Ed Neal, the outdoors writer for the San Francisco Examiner, was retiring after 40 years in the biz. Read More ...
July 1, 2010
And I asked myself, “What am I doing with my life?” He realized that life as a spectator/sportswriter was no life for him. The thought of a career sitting on his bum, watching and writing about a few lucky men playing a game, struck him as ultimate boredom, the personal equivalent of caging a wild animal. Little more than a year later, Stienstra was tipped that Ed Neal, the outdoors writer for the San Francisco Examiner, was retiring after 40 years in the biz. Read More ...
Honeymoon on the PCT
October 22, 2009
Ho hum and a bottle of rum. That’s so, uh, pedestrian … You know, honey, there’s a trail that runs 2,650 miles from Canada to Mexico, over some of the West’s most rugged terrain. We’ll put about 10 pounds of bare-minimum essentials in ultralight packs, lace up some comfy shoes and lock up the house for four months. Read More ...
October 22, 2009
Ho hum and a bottle of rum. That’s so, uh, pedestrian … You know, honey, there’s a trail that runs 2,650 miles from Canada to Mexico, over some of the West’s most rugged terrain. We’ll put about 10 pounds of bare-minimum essentials in ultralight packs, lace up some comfy shoes and lock up the house for four months. Read More ...
Swingin’ in Yosemite
October 21, 2009
Reaching the summit of Lost Arrow Spire affords an awesome view of the park’s glacier-carved valley and takes no small amount of technical skill. But for once in this renowned climbing mecca, the climbing isn’t the story. Lost Arrow Spire’s unique attraction is the maneuver climbers use to depart from the pointy granite peak: the celebrated “Tyrolean Traverse. Read More ...
October 21, 2009
Reaching the summit of Lost Arrow Spire affords an awesome view of the park’s glacier-carved valley and takes no small amount of technical skill. But for once in this renowned climbing mecca, the climbing isn’t the story. Lost Arrow Spire’s unique attraction is the maneuver climbers use to depart from the pointy granite peak: the celebrated “Tyrolean Traverse. Read More ...
Searchin’ for a Soakin’
October 21, 2009
As I bounce along the washboard road, I wonder what it is I enjoy more? Getting completely lost in a maze of backroads? Or finding what I’m looking for – that bubbling pot of liquid nirvana at the end of a dusty road. Well, it would have to be the latter, but the former makes it all that much better. Whether you go just for the hot springs, or you’re a road-tripping skier or climber in need of a soothing bath under a ceiling of ten-thousand stars, you’re unlikely to find a greater abundance of soakable hot pools in a more spectacular setting than the Owens Valley region. Read More ...
October 21, 2009
As I bounce along the washboard road, I wonder what it is I enjoy more? Getting completely lost in a maze of backroads? Or finding what I’m looking for – that bubbling pot of liquid nirvana at the end of a dusty road. Well, it would have to be the latter, but the former makes it all that much better. Whether you go just for the hot springs, or you’re a road-tripping skier or climber in need of a soothing bath under a ceiling of ten-thousand stars, you’re unlikely to find a greater abundance of soakable hot pools in a more spectacular setting than the Owens Valley region. Read More ...
Fountain of Sorrow, Fountain of Light—First-time Trekker Searches for His Rhythm in Bhutan
October 21, 2009
Walking out was the only acceptable option. Lunch that first day was a soggy cheese sandwich and a hardboiled egg, eaten under a tree in the rain. I took that opportunity to change from my soggy, stylish, trekking pants into rain pants. Read More ...
October 21, 2009
Walking out was the only acceptable option. Lunch that first day was a soggy cheese sandwich and a hardboiled egg, eaten under a tree in the rain. I took that opportunity to change from my soggy, stylish, trekking pants into rain pants. Read More ...
A Life en Route—The Extraordinary Ho-Hum Exploits of PCT Hiker Scott Williamson
October 21, 2009
You know not what you're getting into. You'll lose. You'll lose big. Read More ...
October 21, 2009
You know not what you're getting into. You'll lose. You'll lose big. Read More ...
