“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” ― Cindy Ross …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 11: Guitar Lake to Whitney Portal
“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 10: Kearsarge Pass to Guitar Lake
What is adventure? If a lone wolf lifts his plaintive call into the moonlight near your campsite, you might call that adventure. While you’re sweating …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 9: Marjorie Lake to Kearsarge Pass
“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 7: Colby Meadow to Grouse Meadows
“Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit every …
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 5: Silver Pass Lake to Marie Lake
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 4: Deer Creek to Silver Pass Lake
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 3: Thousand Island Lake to Deer Creek
“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 …
Read moreJohn Muir Trail Day 2: Tuolumne Meadows to Thousand Island Lake
On the first day of my John Muir Trail experience, I hiked from Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows. There was a thunderstorm that brought quite a bit of rain, but the day was still a glorious one.