Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! Today is a day we spend time reminiscing about the year behind us and look forward to the year ahead of us. I’ve got a lot to reminisce about. You might recall that this site was launched with three ambitious personal goals I hoped to achieve by the end of [...]

I celebrated a milestone over the weekend, hiking my four-hundredth trail mile of the year! A few friends and members of my Facebook hiking club joined me on the hike down to Sturtevant Falls in the Angeles National Forest.

I’ve never been one to hike in Griffith Park often.  Since the park is located in the center of Los Angeles, it’s usually crowded, and, although it’s covered in miles upon miles of trails, most of them are wide enough to be called fire roads.  I’d much prefer a single track in the neighboring San [...]

Telescope Peak is my nemesis.  It took everything I had in me to conquer the 11,049-foot tall beast last year. It was the hardest hike for 2009, maybe even the hardest hike I had ever done. The 7-mile trail starts off with a steady gain of 1,400 feet up to Arcane Meadow. From the shadow [...]

Yosemite Nature Notes, a high-quality video blog about – you guessed it – the natural wonders of Yosemite National Park, offers online visitors more than just beautiful photos and videos. The series, currently with eight released episodes, is highly informative and provides information that some regulars to the park might not know. For episode six, [...]