When is the last time you went 2 days without seeing another person? No, I don’t mean like last Sunday when you didn’t leave your apartment and barely left your couch. I mean no interaction even by phone, text or email. Not even seeing a person on TV or in a magazine.
This weekend Dave and I backpacked 31 miles around the Buena Vista loop in Yosemite and from about noon on Saturday to about noon on Monday we didn’t see a single person other than each other.
How often does that happen in life?
Categories: Storytelling · Travel
Tagged: backpacking, national park, question, yosemite
Categories: Fun · Looking back · Travel
Tagged: backpacking, friends, hiking, national park, video, youtube
Categories: Travel
Tagged: backpacking, hiking, national park
Tomorrow morning I’m leaving for my highly anticipated summer adventure – the hiking and summiting of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States (14,505 feet).
As of now my highest hiked peak is Mt. Dana in Yosemite (13,061 feet). Whitney doesn’t sound awful compared with Dana, which we did in a day hike, but it’s much more of an undertaking. The backpacking route to Whitney is about 22 miles and is accompanied by about 6,000 feet of elevation gain (it’s a much lower and more distant trailhead than Dana which was something like 6 miles and 3,000 feet of gain). We’ll take 3 days to do it all and rather than take a camera I’m going to take my Flip to document and video record our adventures. Hopefully I’ll be inspired to put together a fun little video montage to post on YouTube next week. Stay tuned!
Categories: Travel
Tagged: backpacking, hiking, national park
