4 Nov
From Branch Whitney of the excellent Hiking Las Vegas blog:
I am not a big fan of the typical desert peaks. Most have boring approaches, crappy rock, and long drives. I do not consider the peaks in Red Rock or Mt. Charleston as desert peaks. The rock there is much different. So I “cherry pick” the [...]
27 Oct
I feel a little sheepish recommending a book glorifying what some would call industrial terrorists.
But I do.
Amazon.com Review:
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a “comic extravaganza.”
Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it’s true that reading this incendiary [...]
11 Sep
Wild Backpacker has a good summary of our favourite hiking destination in the American Southwest:
… Buckskin Gulch is the longest and deepest slot canyon in the Southwest, and while others are narrower, prettier or more challenging to explore, the length and variety of the terrain in the ever changing narrows make it an amazing experience. [...]
18 Aug
The always excellent Without Baggage blog published by Hank Leukart has a funny trip report:
… At midnight, the three of us set off to climb the seven miles and 3,500 feet from Mahogany Flat to Death Valley’s highest point in the moonlight.
In the dark, using only the almost-full moon to guide us, we trudged up [...]
2 Jul
The 2001 book Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon details 500 fatalities.
It’s a dangerous place to travel.
Library Journal:
Flagstaff, AZ-based authors Ghiglieri, a biologist who leads river trips in the Grand Canyon and abroad, and Myers (Fateful Journey: Injury and Death on Colorado River Trips in Grand Canyon), a medical doctor who has [...]
17 Jun
My favourite vista in Death Valley is one of the most popular.
As well as being a curious film by Antonioni (1970), Zabriskie Point is an elevated overlook of a colorful, undulating landscape of gullies and mud hills at the edge of the Funeral Mountains, a few miles from the edge of Death Valley …
American [...]
10 Jun
Telescope Peak.
Trip Report by site editor Rick McCharles.
Want to see the highest and lowest elevations in the continental USA from one vantage?
Telescope Peak is the highest point within Death Valley National Park, in the US state of California. It is also the highest point of the Panamint Range, and lies in Inyo County. From atop [...]
8 Jun
Rarely do I revisit hikes.
But I returned to the Alabama Hills on a recent trip to Lone Pine, California.
This landscape is so weird.
larger version
OK, it’s not that weird. Kids must have painted this one.
But otherworldly. And about as realistic as an old Star Trek TV set.
TTVo – larger version
… The [...]
5 Jun
Trip report by site editor Rick McCharles.
12mi return
I was the only one on the Trail June 2nd.
Most hikers feel it is too hot in June to do valley hikes safely.
Actually, 100 degrees in the shade and zero humidity is not all that uncomfortable. I took plenty of water. And I love these slot [...]
31 May
It was cool and cloudy in the Eastern Sierra today.
Nice.
I did several short hikes in the mountains today as a warm-up for Death Valley.
I’m staying tonight at the excellent new hostel in Lone Pine.
Early Sunday morning I’ll start Telescope Peak in Death Valley. (14mi return)
I’ll tent one night high up [...]
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