Popular Trips in John Muir Wilderness
On trail by 5:30 AM. Headlamps until the ledges, and then made easy time up to Iceburg Lake. Drinking 2 liters at each lake. Started up toward notch from Iceburg and followed the narrow gully on the left, instead of the larger scree gully on the right. Probably more class 3 climbing than expected at this stage, still fun. Two gullies join halfway up at large boulder and ascent becomes easier. At...
Two day ascent of the highest peak in contiguous US.
Day hike to Mt Whitney on Whitney trail, with Renaud and Geoff. Great weather... very long day.
This was planned to be an extremely strenuous trip into the remote Kaweah basin. It evolved into a strenuous adventure near Mineral King in Sequoia National Park, with some extreme weather (anticipated) which made for a most memorable trip-and no other people seen over the course of 4 days. The wonderful terrain-for hiking and viewing- was made even more so by the ultra-clear air, the new snow, and especially by the very...
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Hiking Mt langley in one day from Horseshoe Meadows campground trail head via new Army pass, a beatiful hike with 2 good climb's new Army pass and the summit and it was a long hike.
Palisades: U-Notch to North Palisade and Swiss Arete to Mount Sill
Big Pine, California, United States
21.0 miles
21.0 miles
Our ambitious plan was to head into the Palisades, climb four 14ers, and Temple Crag on our 5 day trip. Although our odyssey did not succeed in completing our crazy plan, we did tackle two classic sierra routes to the top of two 14ers.
A three-day trip to the High Sierra Trail in Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park. We camped both nights at Bearpaw "Meadow" -- a nice pine forest campground. The second day was spent making a day-trip to Hamilton Lakes; we made it as far as Lower Hamilton Lake before stopping for lunch and turning back.Supposedly the High Sierra Trail has the easiest profile of all of the trails in SeKi; while I don't doubt...
drove up to Sequoia National Park. To find the trail head, look for Wolverton Skie and Recreation Area. The trail starts right there from the parking lot.There many trails that branch off, but there are signs at every fork, so don't worry about finding your way. The first 4 miles are mid-difficulty, very nice views, mostly between trees.The last 2 miles are the most difficult part, 29% grade, you go up 2000...
This is probably the best 5 days of hiking I've ever done, followingthe south end of the John Muir Trail from Onion Valley all the way tothe top of Mount Whitney. It's such a good hike, I've done it twice.We started the hike by dropping our car at Whitney Portal and taking ashuttle to Onion Valley campground, where we had a campgroundreservation for the night. On Monday morning we started up theKearsarge...
We headed off for a 6 day, 5 night backpacking trip across the Sierra that starts in Crescent Meadow in Sequoia National Park, crosses the Great Western Divide, summits Mount Whitney, and ends at Whitney Portal.
