Getting To The Trailhead: Trail head grid: 48.596969, -114.035363 Lookout grid: 48.600386, -114.134466 Length: 11.9 miles Difficulty: Moderate  I stepped off at 7:20 am for a hike up to th eHuckleberry Mountain Lookout.  The first mile or so was almost...

By the light of a cozy campfire I read out loud, "I started to run and found I couldn't, because of the boulders; that made me frantic and I climbed over them like a cat and yelled and shouted and...

The plan leaving JTNP was straight forward.  Hit Indio, CA, dump at a free station, head south on Rt 86 along the Sultan Sea, turn inland at Rt 78, go west to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  That's ground zero for...