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 [...]

My fifth and final journal for the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is an appendix of sorts.  It was started after my final day on the trail as a journal for keeping detailed information and stories that might have just been touched upon in my other PCT trail journals.  This journal also gives me a chance to [...]

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 all started with a lost journal. Two weeks ago, while attending a live performance of Radiolab at UCLA, I lost my hiking journal. In the journal was all of my notes, maps, ideas, and thoughts about my 2011 resolution to hike Mt. Whitney. I was a bit devastated, admittedly. During the week of the [...]

There’s a trail in Zion National Park that gives you the impression that you’re not simply hiking but on an expedition to discover a lost city or a legendary relic. Even the name – Hidden Canyon Trail – conjures up visions of adventure, danger, and zombies. Well, maybe not zombies. On an overcast day in [...]