Category: Mark’s Photos

John and I had detoured off the PCT to walk out via Kearsarge Pass, a 7.5-mile and 2,300-foot climb from the trail. We did this to pick up supplies in the tiny town of...

It was a cool morning in February 2024 as I walked down the mountain toward the trailhead after a night camping in an old-growth forest. The blue sky of the morning was being swallowed...

Hiking the PCT, I had been in Oregon about a week when I took this picture of Crater Lake. When I left California, I hadn’t expected much of a difference in the trail, but...

On September seventh 2010 Tropical Storm Hermina moved out of Mexico and into south Texas. It brought with it winds of up to 64 miles an hour and 6.24 inches of rain which caused...

In March of 2017 I started my hike of the 800 mile Arizona Trail. Five hundred miles along, I injured my right big toe making it painful to walk. Of course I walked another...

The thermometer read 19°F and my hands were almost numb. The snow crunched under my trail runners as I stumbled around in the dark. It was 9 o’clock PM on a first quarter moon...