A look back at climbs of Mount Whitney in the days before permits and reservations.

Adventures in Oregon and Beyond…
A look back at climbs of Mount Whitney in the days before permits and reservations.
A look back at a High Sierra peak where persistence crossed the line into obsession.
A remembrance of one of my earliest (and coldest) adventures in Death Valley.
An update of my three-season day hiking gear list for amusement and edification.
A recollection of a NOLS expedition in Wyoming’s Wind River Range in the summer of 1973.
Notes from a backpack along the John Muir Trail in the far away days of August, 1956.
A compendium of hiking trails along much of Southern Oregon’s Rogue River.
Just a remembrance of things past – both the bad and the good.
A backpack down Buckskin Gulch and up the Paria River in southern Utah.