Hetch Hetchy: Walking with the ghost of Muir
At the brink of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, our first glimpse of Hetch Hetchy below set off sensations of awe, ghosts and thrills. In early evening, a thick sky and refracted light tinted the...
View ArticleMount Shasta dreamin’: 30-pic photo adventure
If you dream big in the outdoors, then your dreams will eventually take you to 14,179-foot Mount Shasta for the best hiking, flat-water paddling and flyfishing in the north state. It is one of...
View ArticleBoat shuttle to paradise: 21-pic photo adventure
From Lake of the Woods, you can scan across sapphire waters and beyond up stark, granite slopes to spike-tipped 9,983-foot Pyramid Peak. It’s only a 2.5-mile walk to reach this spot and a few lakeside...
View ArticleOutdoor Mission Impossible? 23-pic photo adventure
Some might call it “Outdoor Mission Impossible.” The mission was to head into the Sierra Nevada on Saturday afternoon of Labor Day Weekend and then find an easy trail with a stellar pay-off, a...
View ArticleTop 10 Bay Area trail camps
The Bay Area has 137 trail camps and they provide some of the region’s last refuges of peace. In addition, 52 sites at seven great trail camps in the Santa Cruz Mountains will open May 1. You can often...
View ArticleTahoe opens early — see how on trek to Crag Lake (photo gallery & video)
Tahoe and its world-renown recreation, from the Lake Tahoe shore up to Desolation Wilderness in the remote high country, is opening up. This early access to Desolation, one of the most popular...
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