Activities

Activities Mountain High in summer A summer poke around Mountain High and Wrightwood: a quick hike, ice-axe self-arrest drills, and hammock time. June 19, 2023 Activities April Fools in a cowboy fit at Mammoth Wind closed Mammoth's summit on April Fools, so the cowboy outfit came out for a snow photoshoot instead. April 1, 2023 Overlanding Coyote Canyon with the Bronco Finally committing real time to Coyote Canyon, Anza-Borrego's classic 4x4 through-route, with Sean's Bronco for backup. March 25, 2023 Activities Niseko powder Four days of legendary Hokkaido powder at Niseko, where the best runs all meant a hike off the ridge. January 25, 2023 Activities Two weeks in Japan A two-week Japan trip: the Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka triangle by bullet train, then four spoiling powder days in Niseko. January 15, 2023 Activities Hiking out of Carlsbad Caverns The last stop of the Texas road trip: hiking out of Carlsbad Caverns the hard way and feeling exactly how deep 750… December 30, 2022 Activities Guadalupe Peak, the top of Texas Bagging Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, on a characteristically windy but smooth day. December 29, 2022 Activities A Mt. Whitney attempt, undertrained A late-October Whitney attempt on a leftover permit, undertrained and a day off the redeye from New York. October 29, 2022 Activities WTC graduation in Joshua Tree The WTC graduation trip in Joshua Tree: off-trail to a desert summit, then a windstorm that sorted the well-pitched tents from the… October 22, 2022 Activities Mt. Muah, just an overnight A WTC overnight up Mt. Muah on the southern Sierra's Kern Plateau, and the truth that one-nighters are their own kind of… October 9, 2022