Section Hiking The John Muir Trail
This guide will detail how we planned and executed section hiking the John Muir Trail over the course of three Summers
North Fork Big Pine Creek (Big Pine Lakes)
If you’re looking for relatively easy access to glacially fed lakes in the Eastern Sierra look no further than the North fork of Big Pine Creek Trail that Leads to Big Pine Lakes. Or as we like to call it the numbered lakes trail. Permits and other relevant information can be found here. Vital Information…
Perfect First Kids Backpacking Trip (Little Lakes Valley)
With minimal elevation gain and beautiful scenery, Little Lakes Valley is the perfect first kids backpacking trip.
Rae Lakes via Kearsarge Pass Trail
Vital Information for Kearsarge Pass Trail To Rae Lakes On this trip we used the the Kearsarge Pass trail to access the John Muir Trail to head north over Glen pass to access the Rae Lakes basin. We did this trip very early in the season (end of May) on what was a low snow…
High Sierra Trail
We did this as a 7 day backpack trip in 2012. The High Sierra trail begins at the Crescent meadow and goes over the Sierra crest to Whitney Portal. There are many ways to accomplish this trail. This was our first long distance backpacking trip and although we trained quite hard for it we aimed…