Backpacking Guides and Trips

For Jaime, Andrew and me, this was our first backpacking trip together since 2009 and we picked a really beautiful place for it: Ten Lakes in Yosemite high country. Ten Lakes, as the name indicates, is a couple of alpine lakes, located in a basin northwest to Tuolumne Peak. The lakes are located at elevations ranging from 8,900 feet to 9,400 feet  and within 1 miles of radius from the main lake you first arrvie at. The trailhead...

4/21/2006 - 4/23/2006 Sunol BackpackingThis was the first backpacking activity hosted by East Bay Regional Park and I was lucky to be part of it. The leaders was Joe Stack and two other staff from the park. In total, we had 11 members to join the trip. The trip was for hikers who wanted to learn how to backpack so most members were the first-time backpackers. In the trip, we hiked part of Ohlone...

This three-day trip is to take an alternate route to climb Half Dome from the top of Yosemite Valley, instead of the famous one from the bottom of the valley taken by most people. First day was to depart from the Sunrise Lakes trailhead near Tenaya Lake and camped near the junction of Clouds Rest and John Muir (JMT) trails where was 2.5 miles away from Half Dome. Second day was to summit Half Dome in the early morning to prevent...