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.
Category Archives: Hiking
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.
Eclipse Trip, April 2024
We’d never experienced a total solar eclipse. There are not many left in our lifetime that are this easy to get to. So we took the long drive.
5 Carolina Peaks April 2024
Well they’re totally different than the Sierra. Trees. Lots of trees.
Wild River Wilderness Backpacking
Bianca and I visited my parents in VT this summer and while there we were lucky enough to fit in a two night backpack into the White Mountains.
Cerro La Cruz (El Arco) October 2023
Cerro La Cruz (El Arco) is the imposing lump of a mountain at the tip of Los Cabos and needed climbing.
Puff and Moan Benchmarks, October 2023
Frank and I successfully ascended Puff and Moan, however, not without some adventure and frustration…
Piute Pass, September 2023
Klaus made his inaugural trip from Georgia back to California for his Sierra hike. Uwe put together a flexible itinerary to cover several routes over Piute Pass north of Bishop.