Water Crossing on the John Muir Trail. Yes, my son hikes with a bow tie.. It’s one of his backpacking traditions. His trail name is “Sherpa”. He was packing over 50lbs because he volunteered to carry all our food for the week in his bear canister. Because I was struggling a lot with the altitude, …
Continue reading Eastern Sierra’s Day 1 (Part 2), Into the wilderness
We started that day at 3 a.m. at 6k feet and ended the day at 10k camped in a high mountain basin next to a pristine alpine lake full of willing brook trout. What came in between was personally one of the most physically and mentally challenging days I've had since my days as an …
Up at 3:45 am this morning to make my way west. I'll stop off at Philadelphia for a connecting flight where I will be joined by long time traveling adventure buddy Ray B. He and I did the Devils River back in 2012 and a couple other adventure/fishing trips since then. The final destination is …
I flew to California to spend some time with my son for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We plan to fish the wild trout sections of the Truckee River and the East Carson River on this trip. Our base of operations is South Lake Tahoe so that means we will need to travel through a number of …
Wild Trout Chronicles 