Man Can't Climb Any Higher and Men Never Came Any Tougher
The snags of dead foxtail pines stood between large boulders, the grain of their trunks dramatically spiraling round and round from base...
Kennedy Meadows
I had four miles of hiking until I reached Kennedy Meadows. The Promised Land. Gateway to the Sierras. The End of the Desert. The river...
Bindlestiff
The song Big Rock Candy Mountain looped over and over in my head to the point where it became maddening. I felt as if there should be a...
Mojave
I stopped by the front desk of the motel to purchase a box of laundry detergent and something about my interaction with the man at the...
Blasted Earth and Blasting Sky
In the morning found myself amidst a beautiful mountain landscape. These were forested mountains, not the barren ridges of my previous...