Introduction: Navigating the High Sierra
In less than a week, I'll be leaving for a 10-day trek through the High Sierra south of Yosemite. As we plan route options, we do so first by looking at the Sierra crest,…
Essays
Technical notes on strategy, trust, systems, and durable growth.
Day 11: Exit / Green River Lakes
It was a muggy, rainy night and mosquitoes by the hundreds were positioned and waiting on the outside of the mesh of my inner tent. With the cold, wind, and altitude of the past…
Day 10: Tourist Creek
As idyllic as the upper basin of Tourist Creek is, we have discovered all the more reason why it will forever remain a special place to us. The very remote entrance from the top…
Day 9: Wind River Glaciers
I began brewing coffee at 4:45 AM this morning so I had a little incentive to get up early to enjoy the distant orange glow of the clear sky sunrise out my open tent…
Day 8: Gannett Peak
Our approach to Gannett Peak came from the south (via Bonney Pass) - we are on an eleven-day expedition where a Gannett summit attempt was only one objective. We are weaving a high route…