By virtue of spending a mildly obscene amount of time on hiking trails over the last decade, I've had a lot of time to ruminate in the midst of an astonishing array of hiking experiences. Because I'm one of those people who seeks out patterns in everything, from which I often derive analogies, I've been …
This weekend, I took a trip out to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park to take an overnight hike up to Whale Peak with my friends, Jim and Alex. As with any hike into Anza-Borrego, this was also an opportunity for me to re-scout a few routes (5, in this case) for a possible 6th edition. I …
When I was 19 years old, I worked in a grocery store that often kept me late hours into the night. Much of the time, I would be awake until 4 in the morning. On one of those late mornings, I found myself aimlessly rifling through the cabinets where my parents kept family photo albums. …
Note: Most of these photos were either from January of 2015 or June of 2015. In early January, I re-scouted the Indian Creek and Garnet Peak routes from Afoot and Afield as part of an extremely casual re-hiking of the entire book. Of course, we'll see if I really re-hike the whole thing. Jerry Schad …
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Note: Fall color photos are from November 2014. The photo of Thunder Valley is from June 2018. In the most casual way possible, I've been re-hiking the 5th edition of Afoot and Afield in case there ends up being a 6th edition at some point in the future. I'm not approaching anything in a systematic …
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