These mushrooms were almost fried.

In Utah, just over the border from Page, Arizona, lies one of the most coveted hikes around: The Wave. This is not it.

One of the highlights of the GSRT2024 was hiking Mt Taylor outside Grants, New Mexico.

Grants is a small town about 80 miles west of Albuquerque and you can see Mt Taylor from the latter.

After spending a few weeks in your more Alpine areas, it was a huge relief to get back to something warm and dry.

This was my second Colorado 14er and, unfortunately, I did it on a Saturday.

My first Colorado 14er was, aside from the altitude, fairly moderate.

It was a harrowing, 14-hour climbing excursion via the toughest route up Mt Evans aka Mt Blue Sky.

Reynolds Mountain is an 9,130' peak near the Logan Pass visitors' center in Glacier National Park. I failed due to weather.

Mt Oberlin is an 8,184' peak in Glacier National Park that's near the Logan Pass visitor center. While AllTrails says to "proceed cautiously", SummitPost calls it "friendly".

A ranger at Glacier National Park thinks not giving people information is a good idea.

A nice moderate hike in Glacier National Park to two waterfalls.

It doesn't go to a peak, but this is one of the top hikes in Glacier National Park.

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