My hiking and trip reports. Many more, and a better design, coming soon.

"What?" You're no doubt asking, because you know the two titular destinations are well over an hour apart.

Rising high above Burbank and Glendale are the perpetually snow-capped Verdugo Mountains...

I'd hiked Josephine Peak in the Angeles National Forest a few times, but this was the first time I'd biked it. It was very windy at times.

This post should be filled with pics from Death Valley, except I went there during a heatwave so I wasn't going to do much hiking.

In 2003 I climbed the Third Flatiron outside Boulder, Colorado. It was my first multipitch trad route.

I recently was in a situation where I needed to use my PLB and the uncertainty around Bullitt (aka "RCD 2023") caused a great deal of