The Lowest to Highest Route is a 135 mi / 217 km hike beginning at Badwater Basin in California's Death Valley National Park and ending at the summit of Mount Whitney - the highest point in the Continental United States (but technically you'll end back down at the trailhead since you'll need to get
Guide to Hiking the Timberline Trail
The Timberline Trail is a 41.5-mi / 66.8-km loop encircling the 11,250 ft / 3,429 m Mount Hood (called Wy'east by the Multnomah tribe) in Northern Oregon. The trail is commonly started from Timberline Lodge on the southern side of Mount Hood, but there are a number of different trailheads that
Guide to Hiking the Wonderland Trail
The Wonderland Trail is a 93-mile (150 km) circuit located in Washington's Mount Rainier National Park with over 23,000 ft / 7,090 m of elevation gain. The trail circumnavigates (goes in a circle around) Mount Rainier, the highest peak in Washington at 14,411 ft / 4,392 m. It's a popular trail and
Fall Hiking In California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains
Some of my favorite places in the world can be found in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and I've recently discovered my favorite time of the year to be there: the fall (or autumn as some readers know it). Why? Over the course of four days my group and I saw zero bugs and crossed paths
Fire Island Rocket Fuel Recipe Guide
Memorial Day weekend has come once again, and with it, hoards of booze-hungry partygoers will be hitting the beaches of Fire Island for another summer of wasted salaries, dead end relationships, and of course rocket fuel. I'm familiar with all those other things, but what is a rocket fuel? If
Climbing Half Dome Without A Permit (Reservation)
So, you're in Yosemite and you want to hike Half Dome. Good idea, I guess. But wait! You didn't reserve a permit months in advance. Whatever will you do? Allow me to share a secret with you all: you don't need to have reserved a Half Dome permit ahead of time to climb the iconic Yosemite
Hiking Yosemite Part IV: The Mist Trail
Wait, where's Part III? Here you go: Hiking Yosemite Part III: Up The Half Dome Eventually I give up waiting for someone to show up with a wing suit or some BASE jumping equipment and decide to make my way down the treacherous Half Dome cables. However, the way down poses an entirely new
Hiking Yosemite Part III: Up The Half Dome
This is the third part of a four-part post, to make sure you're up to speed, best to start with Part 1. Getting up in the morning ranks among my three least favorite things to do (the other two of course being hiking and squeezing lemon into my wounds (the sting means it's working)). But
Hiking Yosemite Part II: The Valley To Clouds Rest
After skipping out on our Sierra High Route attempt, Mr. Moist and myself decided to hitch from Road's End in Kings Canyon to Yosemite for some bumming around the tourist-infested wilderness (and to climb Half Dome). Didn't read Part I? Hiking Yosemite Part I: The Long Hitch In. TL;DR: we got