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Trip reports from all multi-day treks California Date Description Days Total Miles John Muir Trail 8/1/07 Yosemite to Mt Whitney along the JMT 19 233 Lost Coast 5/20/06 A surf trip to a remote beach 2 12 Carson Pass Loop 7/07 Loop trail around Round Top 2 14 Pt Reyes 5/20/06 Palomarin to Wildcat camp to Bear Valley 2 12 Mt Langley 10/22/05 Hiked 14,042 ft Mt Langley in Southern Sierras 2 21 Rae Lakes Loop 7/2/05 Acclaimed loop through Kings Canyon N.P. 5 40 Domelands 12/4/04 Backpacking in the desert of Southern California 2 6 Little Lakes Valley 8/23/04 Rock Creek crosscountry to Treasure Lake 2 8 Ansel Adams Wilderness 8/10/03 Agnew Meadows to thousand island lake. 3 22 Desolation Wilderness 6/10/03 Meeks bay trailhead to Rubicon Lake 2 12.4 Hoover Wilderness 7/10/03 Twin lakes to Crown Lake and Peeler lake 2 18 Desolation Wilderness 7/01/01 Echo Lake to Jabu lake 2 10 John Muir Wilderness 2002 Lake Sabrina to Midnight Lake 3 28
Washington Wonderland Trail 8/29/06 A trip around Mt Raineer 7 80 Icicle Divide 8/29/06 4 Days crosscountry through Alpine Lakes Wilderness 4 45
Utah Chestler Park 3/25/07 One night amongst the needles of Canyonlands 2 15 Buckskin Gulch 5/04/06 The longest slot canyon in the World 3 24 West Rim Trail 4/21/06 Zion National Park Traverse 2 18
Arizona Grand Canyon 7/15/07 Raft Lees ferry to Phantom Ranch, hike out to S. Rim 4 (80 raft - 10 trail) Havasupai 5/5/04 Cascading falls in the Grand Canyon 3 25
Oregon Obsidain Trail 10 /07 1 night out near North Sister 2 12 Broken Top 4/07 Backcountry skiing 2 Eagle Cap Wilderness 8/15/06 Concluding at the beautiful Glacier Lake 3 23
Hawaii Kalalau Trail Summer 08 Na Pali Coast, Kauai 2 22 Maui 5/10/07 Haleakala Crater hike 2 20
Africa Africa Overland Summer 06 The whole trip journal 2 months ? Kilimanjaro Summer 06 A climb to the 19,344 ft rooftop of Africa 6 days 40
Europe 3 months backpacking Europe Summer 03 The whole trip journal 3 months ? -Jotunheimen National Park (Norway) 8/01/03 Norway's "Land of Giants" 3 days -Dolmites (Italy) 9/05/03 A night to remember beneath the Dre Zimmen 2 days
Galleries of my favorite walks
US Date Description Total Miles Oregon Bend 1/25/07 Various trails around Bend, OR
Northern California Mt. Tallac, Tahoe 8/20/04 Long Loop trail through Desolation and the top of Mt. Tallac 12 Point Reyes National Seashore Rugged Nor Cal coastline Mt. Tam and Muir Woods, Marin CA 8/15/04 Wonderful forest stroll with 300ft redwoods 6 Yosemite National Park 5/2003 Its Yosemite, what more do I have to say
Southern California Death Valley National Park 2/06 Largest N.P in the Lower 48 Catalina 4/06 Small quaint island outside of San Diego Cuyamaca State Park 1/21/05 Climb of Stonewall Peak 5 Mt. San Gorgonio 8/15/05 A long day to the top of So. Cals highest Peak 14 Mt. San Jacinto State Park 9/30/04 Take a tram and hike to So Cals 2nd highest Peak 11.5 Torrey Pines State Park, San Diego 2004 The best of southern CA coast Palm Canyon, Anza Borrego State Park 3/15/04 Desert flowers during their yearly bloom 3 Palomar Mt. State Park 12/11/04 Spent the day hiking around 7 Big Sur and Central Coast 7/25/04 Drove up hyw 1 from SD to San Francisco
Arizona Antelope Canyon 4/21/06 One of the most beautiful places on earth
Utah Arches/ Cayonlands / Monument Valley 3/21/06 A roadtrip across Utah all the way to Monument Valley
Wyoming Glacier National Park summer 01 A fantastic day around this magnificent park
Colorado Chasm Lake, Rocky Mt. National Park summer 03 2 hikes- Chasm lake and Bear Valley 8.4
Europe Kleine Scheidegg to Wenden Switzerland summer 03 Beneath Eiger's North Face and Jungfrau First to Falhorn, Gindelwald Switzerland summer 03 Ridgeling hike with unreal views Zermat Switzerland summer 03 Gorgornat train and the hike to Zermatt Chamonix France summer 03 The Mir De Glaze glacier Innsbruck, Austria summer 03 A ridgeline directly above Innsbruck Italy, Cinque Terre summer 03 The best of the Italian Riviera Cliffs of Moor, Ireland summer 03 Wind, cold and rain in western Ireland Plivice National Park, Croatia summer 03 Waterfall Heaven in war torn Croatia Canada Banff National Park summer 03 2 hikes - Eiffel lake and Above Lake Louise
Other Adventures Broken Top 4/07 Backcountry skiing 2 Rafting the Grand Teaching/Traveling in Mexico Nov-Dec 2005 Valdez Alaska Heli skiing April 2004 USA roadtrip - summer 2001 -we drove 11,000 miles to NY and back
"There is an intense but simple
thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything
you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials
behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated,
where money has no value and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the
fewest possessions is the freest." "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while care will drop off like autumn leaves." John Muir "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." ~Caskie Stinnett "You may be a little cold some nights, on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed, or at least in your grave." John Muir "Another
glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent
pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take
no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true
freedom, a good practical sort of immortality..." "One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will." ~Rachel Carson "No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength." ~Jack Kerouac "Nature is the one place where miracles not only happen, but happen all the time" ~Thomas Wolfe "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything" ~Vincent Van Gogh "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~John Muir "The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degreee to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least." ~Lisa Morgan "Few places in the world are more
dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will
eliminate care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every
faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action". You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough. ~Adam Marshall How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard, The Writing Life The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. ~Chief Luther Standing Bear "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.: ~John Burroughs "As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do." ~Zachary Scott Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one might effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood...Afresh dawns the morn of life... ~ Richard Burton "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it reality." - T.E. Lawrence
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