Poor Shelby: so close to Canada and so far from California.

On my way to Glacier National Park I had the not-so-bright idea of visiting our hat, aka Canada.

I had a case of missing time on my way to Canada.

Normally I'm all over things volcanic, but this national monument didn't live up to expectations.

I kicked off my Great Summer Road Trip 2024 Extravaganza by hiking the River Trail to Thousand Island Lake in the Sierra Nevadas.

I was hiking up Mt. Baldy when a wildfire started.

Before the devastating Eaton Fire in early 2025, you could hike from Pasadena up to Mount Lowe near Mt Wilson.

Just because your ego demands you create a National Park doesn't mean you should.

I biked the highest point in San Luis Obispo County, Caliente Mountain.

None dare call it cheating, but I drove part of the way to the highest point in Orange County.

After the Sheep Hole Mountains failure, I needed to get as far away from Joshua Tree as possible.

The Sheep Hole Mountains are a small range not far from Twentynine Palms in the Mojave desert.

About a year before the devastating Eaton Fire, I hiked this front range peak.

No, not that Grand Canyon. The one around here.

Mt Gleason is a 6,530' peak across the way from Pacifico Mountain.

Mt. Baldy - highest point in L.A. County at 10,064' - is currently closed due to the Bridge Fire which, as you'll see in a later post, I saw happen from the summit of Baldy.

The Vital Link is a fun, short-but-steep trail in the Verdugo Mountains. It's 3.8 miles & 1700' of gain round trip so it's fairly steep.

I did this 11,611' peak in the southern Sierras with a micro influencer I'd met online.

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

While I later biked to the highest point in the City of Los Angeles, this time I just hiked it.

This was a fairly easy DPS peak near Lucerne Valley and Victorville.

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.

Clingman's Dome is just a walk along a concrete walkway, but you get several highpoints.

Getting the Delaware Highpoint was perhaps my most dangerous high point ever.

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