Backpacking

Boasting some of the world's most spectacular shoreline, California's Lost Coast is a fantastic place to get lost in the wilderness.

Winter's first snowfall is always magical. In the back country, it can be transcendant.

The 2008 Outdoor Education Program instructors' retreat took us to the winding canyon of Arroyo Seco, near California's Big Sur State Park.

A cold, rainy weekend snowshoeing the Trinity Alps of Northern California.

My friend Paul and I escaped over a November weekend to explore Point Reyes National Seashore on the coast of Northern California.

The second half of my summer in Alaska was spent mostly in the back country, on a three-week trip through the Wrangell Mountain wilderness.

I spent an incredible summer in the middle of America's largest national park exploring mountains, glaciers, and valleys.

A weekend backpacking trip in the Emigrant Wilderness of northern California.

A snow camping trip during a heavy blizzard.

As part of a wilderness training course, I went on a nine-day backpacking trip in the Bitterroot mountains on the border of Idaho and Montana.