I feel very good after my last sojourn into the mountains. I completed a section of the John Muir Trail between Purple Lake and Reds Meadow which tidied things up quite a bit. All that remains is a short, but remote section that includes Muir Pass and a little section out of Yosemite Valley. I […]
Read more "A John Muir Trail Report: Call From The Windigo (August 17, 2021)"“The Lost Boys” consisted of a group of Boy Scouts from Marin County Troop 84 who managed to get lost while hiking on the slopes of Marin County’s Mount Tamalpais during the 1970’s. They were missing for twelve harrowing hours. Upon finding their way back to the trail and then eventually the main road The […]
Read more "Trail Report Redux (1974): The Lost Boys"Greetings readers! I hope this Trail Report finds you “fit as a fiddle” and “happy as a clam”. On a recent trip to Yosemite Valley with my wife and daughter we visited The Ahwahnee Hotel and The Mist Trail. It was so very nice to have some family along on what was originally planned as […]
Read more "Trail Report: Fall Falls in Yosemite (October 15, 2021)"This is a special Trail Report written by guest writer* Augustus McCrae, of the “Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium” located in Lonesome Dove, Texas. (* Note: Gus McCrae is a fictional character from Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Lonesome Dove. Gus spent his final years in the 1870s riding wild and free […]
Read more "A Guest Trail Report: “Country Roads” (November 27, 2021)"By now you have probably already heard the big news: one of America’s most popular national park hikes will require a permit as of 2022. Officials at Zion National Park have announced that as of April 1, 2022, visitors who want to tackle the famous Angels Landing hike, which scales a 1,488-foot tall rock formation […]
Read more "Trail Report Redux (1981): Angels Landing"Happy Holidays! These Winter Holidays are going to be a bit of a rough ride for the Boicourt Family. It seems that a poor investment decision was made by Yours Truly on September 25, 2020 when I liquidated ALL of our assets and bought Evergrande stock at $3.99 per share. As of closing on Friday, […]
Read more "And Now A Special Report: Help me, help you! (December 18, 2021)"Following my Trail Report on Angels Landing (in Zion National Park), I thought it only fitting to report on a recent visit to another angel, Angel Island, located in San Francisco Bay. In order to visit the island, travel to Tiburon, California and take the ferry. If you are lucky enough to have a camping […]
Read more "Trail Report: Angel Island (January 10, 2022)"This Trail Report is dedicated to Bob Cantrell. Bob was a faithful and supportive reader who loved our National Parks. Greetings readers and welcome to this special edition of “Trail Reports” – “A Bike Trail Report”. I recently made what has become a frequent pilgrimage to the natural cathedral known as Yosemite Valley along with […]
Read more "A Bike Trail Report: The Most Sublime Bike Path in the World (April 3, 2022)"I was happily and willingly indoctrinated at the Claremont Graduate University in a learning theory known as Piaget’s Constructivist Theory. It states that as people experience their world they incorporate new information into their pre-existing knowledge. This is achieved by making new connections between what is already known and what is new. Making new connections […]
Read more "Trail Report: Connection and Classification (May 21, 2022)"With my next hike I will have completed the goal of hiking every inch of the John Muir Trail. I realize now that this has been a somewhat selfish pursuit. It is during times like these that I am wont to consult my “Karma Meter”. You have a “Karma Meter” too. Allow me to explain […]
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