November 13, 2020 Backpacking Gear Shake-Down When you are new to backpacking an important first step is to have a gear shake-down and Crystal Cove State Park in Orange County…
August 19, 2020 Backpacking to Cathedral Lakes 2020 was supposed to be the year that Sally and I hiked Mt. Whitney, but instead, we did a 3-night backpacking trip to Cathedral…
March 9, 2020 Backpacking on Catalina Island We hiked 7 1/2 miles to camp at Parsons Landing on a secluded Catalina beach.
November 11, 2019 Backpacking at Little Lakes Valley Backpacking at Little Lakes Valley is a little slice of Heaven. Located outside of Bishop, California. Driving up 395 on the way to Little…
June 30, 2019 Lessons Learned From Backpacking I recently had a bad backpacking trip and I learned many lessons from it. I’m fairly new to backpacking about a year ago my…
June 23, 2019 Hiking From Dry Lake to San Gorgonio Peak….. Day 2 Of Our Backpacking Trip Hiking from Dry Lake to San Gorgonio Peak was our goal. Friday morning we had backpacked from South…
June 19, 2019 Backpacking to Dry Lake Backpacking to Dry Lake was a real surprise. One benefit of the wet winter here in Southern California is that Dry Lake in the…
May 3, 2019 An Overnight Backpacking Trip to Henniger Flats….. On a Saturday in April Sally and I decided to go on an overnight backpacking trip to Henniger Flats. We are training for the…
November 4, 2018 Big Pine Lakes Sunday morning we woke up early and crawled out of our tents. When the sun came up we could see that it had snowed…
