Now that I was on a mission for home I wasted no time. After the Kelso Dunes I drove to Flagstaff, sleeping at the rest area just outside of town. I hit up the coffee shop for a while in the morning, busted up Humphreys Peak in about 4.5 hours, swung by the Flagstaff Brewing [...]
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 [...]
And so I started my quest for the 50 State Highpoints: Boundary Peak, highest in Nevada. I count this as my second, since when I was younger my family and I climbed Borah in Idaho, but it feels like my first. In fact, I may have to climb Borah again so it feels more legit. [...]
