By trip, in reverse chronological order. Use ‘categories’ tags to organize geographically.
WASHINGTON PCT. White Pass to Stehekin. 2021.
WASHINGTON PCT. Cascade Locks to White Pass. July 2019
OREGON PCT. Crater Lake to Shelter Cove. July 2019
- 1 Unfinished Business/ A Slow Train
- 2 Crater Lake of Do-overs
- 3 Overdone
- 4 Diamond View in the Rough
- 5 Moonset Sunrise
EAGLE ROCK LOOP. Arkansas. January 2020
OUTER MOUNTAIN LOOP. Big Bend November 2019.
- Big Bend OML Day 1: A Group of Seven (Randos)
- Big Bend OML Day 2: Ectotones, Dodson Zone
- Big Bend OML Day 3: Outta Dodson, Into the Blue
- Big Bend OML Day 4 + Gear Thoughts
COLORADO TRAIL June/July 2017.
Gear and Other Pre-Hike Thoughts
CT Day 1: A Lightning Start
CT Day 2: Fog, Foot, Food
CT Day 3: Lost Creek to Creek
CT Day 4: Friends-Day
CT Day 5: The Divide
CT Day 6: Zero on the Fourth
CT Day 7: This is Not a Drill
CT Day 8: Three Passes
CT Day 9: The Set-Up
CT Day 10: Elbert is My Shasta
CT Day 11: Smiles, Not Miles
CT Day 12: A Pass Beyond Hope
CT Day 13: Weathered
CT Day 14: Eye on the Sky
CT Day 15: Lost at Ski, Salida Bound
CT Day 16: Simply Salida
CT Day 17: The (Thunder) Crack of Noon
CT Day 18: Zombie Walking Through a Half-dead Forest
CT Day 19: Magic Miles
CT Day 20: Pass Dash, Lightning Flash
CT Day 21: Skyway to Highway
CT Day 22: Leaving Lake City
CT Day 23: #Yurtlife
CT Day 24: Hailing and Bailing
CT Day 25: The Junction
CT Day 26: Heart Troubles
CT Day 27: And Now for the Apocalypse
CT Day 28: 28 Days Later
HUEMUL CIRCUIT, Argentina, January 2017
TORRES DEL PAINE, Chile, December 2016
HIGH SIERRA TRAIL+KERN BASIN, Fall 2016
PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, 2016. Burney Falls –> Cascade Locks
NorCal PCT
I am a LASHER Now
1416 In Medias Res
1425 Make Your Own Solstice
1466 Making Friends with Speed
1468 Afternoon of a Faun
1480 Feeling Legit in Castella
1498 A Little Bit Rattled
1516 A Glorious Day
1543 The Trinity Alps, With Gusto
1566 To Russia, With Love
1591 Etna Mode
1597 A Most Beautiful Sufferfest
1621 I Thought There Would Be Dragons
1647 Peaceful Valley
1656 Climbing Toward Rumors of Oregon
1677 Oregon Border Magic for America Day
Oregon
1700 Rest and Reunions at Callahans
1715 Ashland Zero
1715 Strawberry Hills Forever
1740 On A Grey Day, the Trail Provides
1761 Weaving Through a Horizontal Forest
1788 Humbled by Winter in July
1810 Crate Lake of Tears
2094 A New Direction
2080 The Blueberry Miles of My Dreams. And a Thunderstorm
2052 Meeting the Storm Angel
2030 Beauty and the Burn
2002 Finding Friends at Camp
1993 The Path to Sisters is Paved in Gold
1974 My Siblings are Mountains
1951 Doing the Mosquito Dash
1923 Shelter Cove for Now
2094 North Again, Alone Again
2098 Thirty + One
2130 Bridge of the Gods
TRANS-CATALINA TRAIL January 2016
1: Bison in the Mist
2: Sky to Sea to Sea
3: Beach Day
4: The High Road
RED PEAK PASS LOOP, Yosemite, October 2015.
Day 1 My Solo Hiking Edge
Day 2 Amaze-Miles of Solitude. And the Merced River Headwaters
Day 3-4 Down the Merced, Toward the People
Let’s Hike! Trip Advice
PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, 2015 Campo to Burney Falls. May 5-July 31.
Part I: The Desert
Day 1 Quiet Miles and a Noisy Night
Day 2 Under the 8 and into the Clouds
Day 3 An Unexpected Town Vortex
Day 4 Snow Day Dance Party
Day 5 My First 20
Day 6 Trail Magic is Magic
Day 7 Mile 100 and Clean Hopes
Day 8 Roads More and Less Traveled
Day 9 Fixie the One-Speed Pixie of the PCT
Day 10 Storm Troopers in Paradise
Day 11 Zero Fail
Day 12 Adventures in Snowcal
Day 13 Escher Prison and a Hiker Oasis
Day 14 Water in the Desert
Day 15 Wild Poodle Dog and Caged Bears
Day 16 Pajama Day in Big Bear
Day 17 The Crack of Noon
Day 18 Hiker Train to Deep Creek Hot Springs
Day 19 Triple Threats on the Downhill
Day 20 McWater Source
Day 21 The Hills Have Hills
Day 22 Eating Wright
Day 23 Switching Things Up, Up, Up
Day 24 Road Walking for the Frogs
Day 25 So Hot, So Poodle, So Tired
Day 26 Double Magic to the KOA
Day 27 Chillin’ in Agua Dulce
Day 28 Two Moons
Day 29 Slow and Lazy Gets the Moonrise
Day 30 Drought Walking in the Valley of the Wind
Day 31 SoCal Special
Day 32 Slackpackers to Mojave
Day 33 Giving in to the Zero
Day 34 Spring Break
Day 35 Operation Hydration
Day 36 The Desert is Kind
Day 37 Reunions on a Windy Ridge. And an Orange
Day 38 Snaking Toward Kennedy Meadows
Day 39 I Will Survive
Part II: The Sierra
Day 40 Escaping the Vortex, Heading for the Hills
Day 41 Resting Peacefully in Death Canyon
Day 42 Walking to New Heights
Day 43 Magical Meadows and Familiar Sites
Day 44 Walking the Impassible, Winter with Flowers
Day 45 Inyo Forest, Hiking Yo Trails
Day 46 The Sierras are Winning
Day 47 Chasing Marmots
Day 48 Solstice. I’m Doing it Right.
Day 49 Hello Dario! Ranger Day in Evolution Valley
Day 50 The Mosquitoes Strike Back
Day 51 Mammoth Achievements
Day 52 Buying All the Things
Day 53 In Which I Realize I am Brave
Day 54 Tuolumne Hustle. And a Marmot
Day 55 Smoke and Meadows
Day 56 Lightning Restarts a Tired Heart
Day 57 I Met a Bear
Day 58 A Thousand Miles for Lunch
Day 59 Sonora Magic to Davis
Day 60 Baking in Davis
Day 61 The Journey Back
Day 62 Blooming Hills
Day 63 Feeling Electric and a Bit Exposed
Day 64 On the Ambiguity of Phone Service
Day 65 Rainy Day Detour
Day 66 Warm in the Storm
Day 67 Beer and/on/over Dicks
Day 68 My Fears, Mansplained
Day 69 Section K is for Kindness
Part III: NorCal
Day 70 Railways and Rolling Hills
Day 71 Heading Down to the City
Day 72 Sierra City. We are Caribou
Day 73 An Unexpected Tour
Time Out Merced
Day 74 Back at it, the Sky and I
Day 75 Slowly, Northward, Slowly
Day 76 Water Bubbles
Day 77 Up All Day, Up All Night
Day 78 Passing Comical Trees
Day 79 Gifts of the Ascent
Day 80 Halfway Everywhere
Day 81 Drakesbad Style
Day 82 Feeling the Burn
Day 83 A Desert in the Sky
Day 84 Cache 22
Day 85 A Grand Pause
JOHN MUIR TRAIL, 2014. My first solo hike.
SOBO JMT Photos August/September 2014
NOBO Overlap with the PCT 2015 starts here