Oronaut

Probably because so many more people try to climb Whitney than the countless other mountains of comparable difficulty, all of my research went on and on about how difficult Whitney is and how careful you need to be. The regular trail is 22 miles round trip and 6000′ of vertical gain. The mountaineers route is [...]

Tags: Alabama Hills, California, Lone Pine, Mount Whitney, Mountaineers Route, Owens Valley, Sierra Nevadas, state high points
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I realized I was trying to pack too much in to my trip long ago, but it became very apparent in Oregon. I wanted to hike the Three Sisters, visit Crater Lake, Mount Shasta, San Francisco, the Napa Valley, Yosemite… the list goes on. And there was no way I could do it all before [...]

Tags: California, Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
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