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Trail Updates & Current Teachings
Our current thoughts on current trail conditions, certain hiking topics, weather and any other streams of thought we may have on hiking and the wilderness experience!
Mountain Education’s “Snow Basics Clinics” are dead for this year.
Pull the Plug! The baby is dead. The State of California came back this morning to say that, if Mountain Education wants to continue to work within the State Park in the process of providing free public safety clinics, they will have to apply to do so as a Park...
SoCal Snow Basics Clinics, Update
SoCal Snow Basics Clinics, Update, 1/31/23: In case you're curious, this has been the process of assessing and creating this new snow safety course for the greater hiking and thru-hiking community in Southern California: With all the snow from multiple Atmospheric...
Snow Basics Clinics Announced
It’s official…Snow Basics Clinics will be offered in Southern California for 2023! Mountain Education, Inc., will be offering fourteen (14), 1-day, snow-hiking safety clinics on Saturdays from February to June! If you are a summer hiker and would like to learn how to...
Welcome to Mountain Education for 2023!
We’re Back! Storms are bashing the western United States with tons of rain and snow, then coating the rest of the country with blizzards and sheets of ice. Long-distance “thru-hikers” have finally received the “green light” of their epic start dates and are feverishly...
The Pacific Crest Trail
Why? How? Explain!" It's been almost 50 years since my PCT thru-hike in 1974 changed my life by just walking its length. Due to that revelation, I've tried to reach out to others over the years to help them find what I found along this glorious and challenging trail....
Wilderness Relationship
Through a long-distance hiker's pictures, observations, and wilderness awareness come valuable and important vignettes into the world of backpacking and all the miraculous benefits it offers the human heart and spirit. This picture catches my attention because it...
Trailside, “Black” Bear Encounters
I've had three encounters over the years that went down exactly like this. On my part, I just stood there, "got big," and made a lot of noise, while each bear walked toward me, after a great deal of reluctance and immediate searching of the trailside brush for an easy...
Almost There Adventure Podcast
At the core of the hiking community is a profound love of all things wild and the shared comaraderie amongst hikers of both the struggle to experience it and the joys felt living in it. Thus, the "Almost There" is an encouragement amongst hikers to keep going, because...