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Kearsarge Pass – Mind Over Matter
Big Pothole Lake, Kearsarge Pass Ask any hiker that ventures into the backcountry what the hardest part of the experience is and many will say “the mental part.” Up until we logged hundreds of...
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Kearsarge Pass – A Thru Hiker Highway
Ask any Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) thru-hiker about Kearsarge Pass and they will confirm that it is a main resupply route. We would run across more PCT and JMT hikers than ever before. Generally,...
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Wildfire in Yosemite – Part I
Wildfire in Yosemite – Photo Credit – Jeffrey Trust via Reuters We were finishing up a section hike of the John Muir Trail in early September. The trip from Mammoth into Yosemite was filled with the...
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Trapped! Wildfire in Yosemite Part II
Wildfire in Yosemite – Photo Credit – Michael Frye/AP This is the second half of a two-part story. Part I is here: http://thelatebloomerhiker.com/2014/10/03/wildfire-in-yosemite-part-i/ No time to...
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How to Win the War on Mosquitoes When Hiking
Camping near a stream is great. Notice the head-net and long sleeves? Hike in the backcountry long enough and you will understand the saying “I’m being eaten alive”. Eaten by mosquitoes that is. Some...
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Yosemite – Frozen Lower Cathedral Lake
Sometimes there are not enough words to describe Yosemite. It is a land of enchantment, meaning one will fall in love with it. Today, we had another opportunity to venture out near the Tioga Road and...
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Yosemite – A National Treasure That Will Capture Your Soul
Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. John Muir, The Yosemite (1912)...
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Where You Pitch Your Tent Matters
Big Pothole Lake on the Kearsarge Pass Trail It was a quiet night in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. Saxton Camp filled up with a Boy Scout troop, so we retreated a few hundred feet downhill in...
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Never Trust a Marmot
A marmot sunning above Thousand Island Lake on the JMT. The hike today had been a long one. The John Muir Trail was all that we had expected and more. Imagine Ansel Adams pictures in living color....
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Mule Doodles on the Trail – A Trek Through the Sierras
Approaching Sunrise High Sierra Camp in Yosemite. Hike long enough in the Sierras and you inevitably notice the FedEx and UPS carriers of the mountain trails. There are around 16 commercial outfitters...
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