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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...