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 you know what Fire Island […]
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 […]
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 challenge: […]
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 a lot of […]
Hiking Yosemite Part I: The Long Hitch In
I have been off the Pacific Crest Trail for some time now, but that hasn’t stopped my brain from coming up with grandiose ideas of adventure that may or may not be realistic in either practice or theory. My good friend from the PCT, Mr. Moist, and I decided to try our luck at the […]
52 Hours Of “I’m Never Doing This Again”
A Greyhound Bus from Los Angeles to New Orleans. So much uncertainty. Do joyous memories, character-building life experience and lifelong friends await me on the road? Or is this as terrible an idea as it sounds? TL;DR: it was a terrible idea. THE ITINERARY Los Angeles to San Diego. San Diego to El Paso. El […]
Photo Gallery: Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. also known as the District of Columbia (by nobody), the capital of the United States of America (it’s actually quite a long name if you put it all together: Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America Inc). But the city is more than just politics and a grid of roads named using […]
A Beginner’s Guide To Fire Island
Just off the southern coast of Long Island, New York, a summertime haven exists for all those looking to escape reality and to find themselves on the beach with the city lost long behind them. Widely unknown outside of New York, Fire Island attracts a diverse crowd of people: from children and families to the […]
