While hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, I recorded over 300 videos. Most were done for personal reasons, but I did make quite a few with the intention to share with y’all. While on the trail, I sent home my full camera memory cards to my friend, Peter Genovese, along with notes on which videos to [...]

On my Pacific Crest Trail adventure, I took over 8,500 photos. I’ve spent some time looking through them all and picked out the best to share with you. Here’s my favorite 75 photos of the first 500 miles of my journey. This will be first in a series of posts showing my photos from the [...]

It was about ten months ago that I posted a few scanned pages from my hiking journals. In 2010, I carried Moleskine plain pocket-sized notebooks while working hard to complete my personal goal of hiking 500 trail miles before the end of the year. I completed the goal and, in the end, filled about 300 [...]

It started as rumors. A pebble had been dropped into the proverbial waters of the social network and rippled through California: chilly temps combined with precipitation could bring snow levels to Southern California as low as 500 feet in elevation. We’re usually known for our sunny beaches and tanned celebrities, but the Golden State does [...]

If I look back at all of the hiking I’ve done in my life, there are a just a few moments that stay on the surface of my memory. Moments where I’ve turned a bend in the trail or come up over a ridge and gained a view of such amazing beauty, I’m forever changed. [...]