Weekend Trip to Kennedy Meadows
It was 7:58. A Friday night. The sun still just above the mountain ridge and already Alena and I had retreated to our tent for the night. Only a thin layer of netting separated us and our dinners from the countless vicious mosquitoes that were systematically probing our tent, looking for a way in to…
JMT 2018 – My 10ish Days on the John Muir Trail
I just got home from this year’s attempt at solo thru-hiking the JMT Southbound. I struggled at first, but shortly fell into the groove of trail life. It is a truly a beautiful trail, but it is definitely frickin hard! My body ended up breaking down too much for me to complete the trail again…