Beautiful Day Hike

DuPont State Forest. From Cedar Rock trail. Near Cedar Mtn, NC. 

Fall colors galore! From Blue Ridge Parkway. Near Rosman, NC. 

Mtn to Sea trail from 215. Pisgah NF. Near Rosman, NC. 

Looking South. Off Blue Ridge Parkway. Pisgah NF. Near Brevard, NC. 

Pisgah NF. Near Brevard, NC. 

Palmetto Trail. Sumter NF. Near Joanna, SC. 

WMA near Ridgeland, SC. 

Late summer trip to the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains in Nevada and California.  120 miles hiking and 1100 miles driving over fourteen days, including a weekend with our daughter and son-in-law! Highlights of the trip include the Eastern Sierra lakes of the Toiyabe and Inyo National Forests.  Also, hiking on Slide Mtn. and the sublime beauty of Lake Tahoe.

From Slide Mountain, above pass campground. Near Reno, NV. 

From paraglider summit. Near Stateline, NV. 

Tahoe NF. Near Verdi, CA. 

North from Spooner summit. Near Carson City, NV. 

Near Tom's Place, CA. Smoke from Garnet fire. 

Skelton Lake, John Muir Wilderness. Inyo NF, near Mammoth Lakes, CA. 

Over the Sierras. Near Bishop, CA. 

Inyo NF, near Bishop, CA. 

Inyo NF, near Bishop, CA. 

John Muir Wilderness, Inyo NF, near Bishop, CA. 

John Muir Wilderness, Inyo NF. Near Bishop, CA. 

Near Bishop, CA. 

John Muir Wilderness, Inyo NF. Near Bishop, CA. 

BLM land near Bishop, CA. 

Inyo NF. Near Mammoth Lakes, CA. 

Gondola to summit. Near Mammoth Lakes, CA. 

Mammoth Lakes, CA. 

Mammoth Lakes, CA. Smoky evening. 

Near Bridgeport, CA. 

Hoover Wilderness, Toiyabe NF. Near Bridgeport, CA.