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.
Continue reading “San Jacinto solitude and backpack field test”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 weeks there across of a mix of hiking, city visits, and beach days, with plenty of tasty food in the mix. We also went SCUBA diving for the first time which was a really amazing experience for both of us.
We put together a photo album covering our adventures there for these two weeks, and here I’ll write a bit more about the big hike that I did in the middle of our trip – El Teide.
Continue reading “El Teide & Christmas 2023 in Tenerife”Chestnut Ridge and Flattop
Two more South Carolina mountains but with some interesting environs.
Continue reading “Chestnut Ridge and Flattop”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.
Continue reading “Spectre Peak, April 2024”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.
Continue reading “Eclipse Trip, April 2024”5 Carolina Peaks April 2024
Well they’re totally different than the Sierra. Trees. Lots of trees.
Continue reading “5 Carolina Peaks April 2024”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.
Continue reading “Wild River Wilderness Backpacking”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…
Continue reading “Puff and Moan Benchmarks, October 2023”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.
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