Archive for the ‘Backpacking’ Category

  • Cottonwood Lakes

    Cottonwood Lakes

    This trip ended a bit unexpectedly, but was fun nonetheless. The Cottonwood Lakes loop is a well-traveled trail that meanders through three different park systems in the Sierra Nevada. We planned on hiking into the namesake lakes to acclimate for a couple of days, and then summit nearby Mt. Langley (the southernmost peak over 14,000 […]

  • Olympic National Park

    Olympic National Park

    Scott, Jasmine, and myself.  All over Washington.  Write more.

  • Lost Lake

    Lost Lake

    Our second trip to Lost Lake – four years later.  We had a huge group, twelve people in all.

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  • Wonderland Trail

    Wonderland Trail

    Write it up.

  • Grand Canyon

    Grand Canyon

    The Grand Canyon is one of the most well-known and photographed of all the National Parks, so we were excited at the thought of exploring this deep chasm that has been cut into the heart of Arizona. I have some new respect for those mules that hike up and down the canyon each day, that […]

  • John Muir Trail

    John Muir Trail

    The John Muir Trail, 220 miles of fun.  Need to add some more here.

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  • Golden Trout Wilderness

    Golden Trout Wilderness

    This backpacking trip to Click’s Creek was supposed to be a training exercise in preparation for the John Muir Trail. That it might have been, but we remember it best as the time we convinced Lopez to eat a lizard.

  • Lost Lake #1

    Lost Lake #1

    The adventure begins, our first group backpacking trip to Lost Lake in Sequoia National Park.  This memorable trip inspired the genesis of this website, in fact.

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