Sunday Summit Dinner Hike Atop Cucamonga Peak 08.31.15
Last night, I took a 12 mile round trip hike with 4,000ft of elevation gain to eat dinner at the summit of Cucamonga Peak. This …
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John Muir Trail Day 11: Guitar Lake to Whitney Portal
“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 …
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John Muir Trail Day 10: Kearsarge Pass to Guitar Lake
“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 …
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John Muir Trail Day 9: Marjorie Lake to Kearsarge Pass
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 …
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John Muir Trail Day 8: Grouse Meadows to Marjorie Lake
“Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good …
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John Muir Trail Day 7: Colby Meadow to Grouse Meadows
“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 …
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John Muir Trail Day 6: Marie Lake to Colby Meadow
“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 …
John Muir Trail Day 5: Silver Pass Lake to Marie Lake
“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 …
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John Muir Trail Day 4: Deer Creek to Silver Pass 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 …
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John Muir Trail Day 3: Thousand Island Lake to Deer Creek
“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 …
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