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Alta Peak and Mount Dana, June 2024

We had an early season backpacking trip in Yosemite with friends planned and instead of driving straight up and back for the trip, I bookended it with a couple of Sierra Nevada peaks.

Hogback Mountain and Rocky Spur

Finally, a SC peak with a forest road/path. Well at least one anyway.

Peaks of the Balkans – Backpacking through Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo

When I moved to Europe in 2018 I ended up with some unexpected extra time on my hands before starting my job in Belgium. I eventually spent that time hiking around Romania, but not before reading about a trail called the Peaks of the Balkans. A ~190km loop trail through the rural mountains at theContinue reading “Peaks of the Balkans – Backpacking through Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo”

San Jacinto solitude and backpack field test

Since May 2017 my Osprey Stratos 36 has been my daypack and spent has many hundreds of hours on the trail with me. On the recent Spectre hike one of the loops for the hiking poles broke. Time to send it in for repairs.

El Teide & Christmas 2023 in Tenerife

For Christmas 2023 Bianca and I traveled to the Canary Islands and spent two weeks car camping around Tenerife, with a brief hop over to La Gomera. Dispersed camping is not allowed on the islands, but Tenerife has a great series of free public campgrounds to make up for it. We spent our two weeksContinue reading “El Teide & Christmas 2023 in Tenerife”

Chestnut Ridge and Flattop

Two more South Carolina mountains but with some interesting environs.

Spectre Peak, April 2024

Matt and Bianca were visiting and wanted a good, hard desert hike around Joshua Tree NP. Matt had done some research and suggested Spectre and Agua as an option. I knew it was exactly what he was looking for.