Tablelands Traverse
A perfect Sierra weather report suddenly materialized in early October 2022. I dropped everything I was doing and set to finalize a route that I had been sketching through the Tablelands East of the...
Category: Fastpacking
Fastpacking is the marriage of running and backpacking. With advances in gear design, runners can take the bare minimum of overnight equipment in a pack that weighs less than twenty pounds on multi-day trail runs.
Backpacking Cottonwood Lakes, Crabtree Pass, Siberia, and Funston
I’ve been meaning to start a trip from the Horseshoe Meadows / Cottonwood Lakes Trail head – which I’d never done before. With the exception of the trip to Funston Lake, this route follows...
Circumnavigation of the Palisade Crest
For a long time, I have wanted to visit the Palisade Glacier. Everyone knows that glaciers are shrinking and vanishing, so I figured it would be a good idea to check out this noteworthy...
The Condor Trail (Leg One)
One day Janet and I were bikepacking some remote trails in the Los Padres National Forest and we met a couple who told us they were hiking the Condor Trail. Once we got home...
Aborted JMT attempt with Steve
My friend Steve wanted to do a “fastpack” of the John Muir Trail. He aimed to do the trip in about 6 days. He wanted some company, and this sounded exciting to me, so...
Skurka High Basin Route With Steve
In October of 2017, my late friend
Fastpacking Hell For Sure Pass to Goddard Canyon
This is the map for the entire route discussed in this post. To Export GPX files, click on the three horizontal bars in the upper right hand corner of the map and select Export...
Mineral King Over the Great Western Divide
I’ve been meaning to begin a trip from Mineral King, and we finally had an opportunity to squeeze in a 3 day backpacking trip to this new location. The route we selected could be...
