John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21, 1838. His family moved to the United States when he was 11 years old and settled in Wisconsin. Muir was an inventor, farmer, sheepherder, logger and ...

The John Muir Trail starts in Yosemite Valley and ends at Whitney Portal, so the second way to hike the trail is north from Whitney Portal. Because these permits are also used by hikers summiting the ...

A first-hand adventure along the John Muir Trail, through John Muir's Range of Light. Follow five high school students along their 17 day journey through the tallest mountain range in the contiguous ...

This story was published originally in The Bee on Sept. 24, 2006. Among hundreds of peaks that form the High Sierra, Tawny Point is barely a bump, an insignificant pile of rocks dwarfed by two ...

Running through scenery as spectacular as the Sierra Nevada as fast as you possibly can may seem counterintuitive to some. But for Mike Wolfe and Hal Koerner, two sponsored trail runners, the speed ...

Echoes in the Wilderness: A 211-Mile John Muir Trail Journey 211 miles of untamed silence. This Director’s Cut invites you into a world untouched—where granite spires kiss the sky and footsteps vanish ...

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"We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind," -- Salman Rushdie, "Shalimar the Clown." In the age of Big Data we measure ...

In her effort to set a new FKT on the John Muir Trail, Caroline Himbert suffered painful blisters, an injured knee, and hallucinations so intense her team almost called for rescue. For all that effort ...