Last night I taught my final class (map and compass) for the REI Outdoor School, at the Fremont store. The class was a little tricky as some of the students weren’t getting things on the first pass, but in the end everyone seemed to overcome the challenges. I got high marks on the evaluations, much […]

Last weekend was the annual henry Coe Backcountry Weekend, the 4th consecutive year for Antony and I. Like every other year, we set our sights high and came home sore and exhausted, dragging our sorry rears back to the truck at the end of the weekend… The previous years we went in the TJ, but […]

Working two jobs has been pretty rough. The low point was the 19-day stretch with one day off. During that time, I had two 12.5-hour work days (the others all 8 hours), and a few days of classes where I had to be “on” all day and hike as well. After the tail end of […]

Here’s the story as reported by one of many news outlets. Excerpt: “After the cell phone call, the pair began heading down the mountain, but they couldn’t give rescuers an exact location since they did not have a mountain locator device. However, the pair found a Geocache, which helped searchers zero in on them. A […]