Words about science and hiking
The article is a bit more coherent (I hope) than my trail journal. I wrote it before I did the northern half of the trail, so it just covers the spring portion of the flip-flop. Lots of good pictures in a nice layout – check it out.
Not so much a how-to as a why-to, published in Trail Groove.
In 1976 my brother and I set out to hike from Walker Pass to Lake Tahoe. I injured my knee and had to bail out at Onion Valley. In 2016 I finally finished this hike – here is my account in Trail Groove Magazine.
Guadalupe Mountain National Park is a study in desolation. Here’s my Trail Groove report.
Trail Groove article about an essential camping skill
Thru-hike of the Colorado Trail in 2015, as published in Trail Groove magazine
My account of hiking the Knowles-Mee Canyon loop in the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness of western Colorado