Watson Blum High Route
Slow and Light The Watson Blum High Route connects the terrain between Mt. Watson, Bacon, Hagan, and Blum in the Baker Lake region…
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Chain Lakes, Bulls Tooth
Alpine Lake Perfection Most summers, my sister, her husband, and my dad try to go on a backpacking trip together. This summer, we…
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Beartooth Plateau High Route
3 Boys, 300 Lakes, and a 3,000,000 Boulders During my extended road trip of 2018, the last stop was supposed to be the…
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Thunder-Robin High Route
One Last Hurrah for Summer September is the great transitionary month in the Cascades. The vegetation changes color and the weather starts to…
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The Brooks Range
Adventures Unwritten Gates of the Arctic National Park has no established trails and should remain that way. For that reason, I have purposefully…
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Dakobed Range Circumnavigation
Secrets of the Glacier Peak Wilderness This summer, I’ve started to branch away from the classic climbs and trails of the Washington Cascades….
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The Extended Ptarmigan Traverse
An Island in the Sky The Ptarmigan Traverse is perhaps the most famous mountaineering traverse in the lower 48. It crosses 30 miles…
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Super Sierra High Route
The Trip of a Lifetime Going into the summer, we had some grand plans, but nothing compared to our goal of completing the…
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Ruby Crest Trail
Hiking Nevada’s Sierras Nevada has this funny inferiority complex to California. They like to compare things in Nevada to famous counterparts in California,…
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Kings Peak (Uintas) Backpacking Loop
Flat, Flat, Flat, and the Tallest Mountain in Utah Pulling up to the China Meadows Campground trail head the night before, we were…
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