Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 Start/End: Granite Mountain trailhead Miles: 8.12 Elevation gain/loss: 3619′ I met up with my friend Rin at the trailhead; we know each other from overlapping one day on the PCT in Washington in 2020 and have kept in contact since! It was great to meet up in person to spend some … Continue reading Granite Mountain
Monday, October 3rd, 2022 Start/End: Mailbox Peak upper trailhead Miles: 7.9 Elevation gain/loss: 3812′ After wrapping up my day of work, I headed out to the trailhead to meet up with my coach, Joe McConaughy. We decided to go up the steep old trail and then descend by the switchbacks of the new trail. It … Continue reading Mailbox Peak
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 Start: Snow Lakes Trailhead End: Stuart Lake Trailhead Miles: 18.95 Elevation gain: 7149′ Elevation loss: 5135′ After a long drive yesterday evening, I arrived at the Bridge Creek Campground around 12am. The campground appeared to be full, but there was some flat space underneath pine trees nearby. I parked my car, … Continue reading The Enchantments
Sunday August 21, 2022 Start/End: Crawford Notch Miles: 4.68 Gain/loss: 2192′ With a long day and late night yesterday, I managed to sleep a bit better (with my food slung up a tree outside to keep it away from the mouse), though I was still awake by 6:30am. I made my way to Gorham to … Continue reading The Grid: Jackson
Saturday, July 2, 2022 Start: I-5, Ashland End: campsite near Siskiyou Gap Miles: 16.1 Elevation gain/loss: 3839/2070 After 4 hours of sleep and a lot of airport shenanigans (in which Salt Lake City airport lost my bag, necessitating a hotel stay in Medford courtesy of Delta; I finally received my bag 14 hours late), I … Continue reading Day 1, NorCal PCT 2022
February 21, 2022 Peaks: Garfield Start/End: Gale River Road Miles: 11.9 Elevation gain: 3330′ GPS track It was a beautiful day, in the 40s in the valley, and I knew the trail conditions would be just about perfect. So I headed to the trailhead around 3:30pm, put on my spikes, and headed out. The road … Continue reading The Grid: Garfield
February 20, 2022 Start: Unknown Pond trailhead End: Starr King trailhead Miles: 21.04 Elevation gain: 8366′ GPS Track My friend and I met up at in Lincoln at 5am, drove to the Starr King winter trailhead, dropped a car, and then headed the hour drive over to Unknown Pond trailhead. When we started at 7:15am, … Continue reading Winter NE100: Horn, Bulge, Middle and South Weeks
February 19, 2022 Peaks: Wildcat A and D, Carter Dome, Middle and South Carter Start: Wildcat ski resort End: 19 Mile Brook trailhead Miles: 13.14 (+0.4mi road walk until hitch) Elevation gain: 6359′ GPS track I was up early to drive the 1.25 hours over to Wildcat and then had to hoof it hard to … Continue reading The Grid: Wildcats and Carters
February 18, 2022 Peaks: Middle and North Tripyramids Start/End: Pine Bend Brook trailhead Miles: 8.96 Elevation gain: 3927′ GPS track I parked on the side of the road with a handful of other cars by Pine Bend Brook trailhead. I debated spikes versus snowshoes and was glad I decided to go with spikes. The soft … Continue reading The Grid: Tripyramids
Saturday, October 23, 2021 Start: Sugarloaf parking lot, Deerfield, MA End: Wunsch Rd, Greenfield, MA Miles: 15.67 Elevation gain/loss: 3222’/3009′ GaiaGPS track (corrected for two spots where I got off trail) After spotting a car at the small parking lot off of Wunsch Rd, Little Engine and I started our hike at 9am from the … Continue reading Pocumtuck Ridge Trail
Transcending Mountains 