Twig Adventures

Category: Yosemite High Route

2025 Summer/Fall Summary & Stats, Year In Review

Desert Winter Thru Hike, Pacific Crest Trail, Pacific Northwest Trail, San Diego Trans County Trail, Sierra High Route, Yosemite High Route

(Scroll to the bottom for a listing of links to all my posts) I respect those that can summarize their yearly recaps into beautiful and tidy video reels on social media, but I’m unfortunately not one of them. I can just barely manage static images, words and numbers…in essence, boring old Luddite stuff. That’s just me, I guess. Even still, I was overwhelmed trying to fit this year into a blog post, but here goes… I’ll start with the figures from my Garmin watch, which says I took a F*#!-ton of steps! My 4,471.8 estimated miles were based on these step counts, thus include every day life movements, not just hiking. But in totaling my hiking miles for the year[…]

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2025 Sierra High Route Days 0-5: Sonora Pass to Tuolumne Meadows

Pacific Crest Trail, Sierra High Route, Yosemite High Route

Days 0, August 25-31st: I skipped the PCT NoCal section since I already hiked most of it a 2nd time in 2023 (along with the Oregon Coast Trail, part of the Bigfoot Trail, and entire Tahoe Rim Trail). I spent nearly a week with trail friends Scott and Alan, both of whom helped me out tremendously on past hikes of the Pacific Coast Bigfoot Crest Rim Trail and Desert Winter Thru-hike. I stayed with Alan in Sacramento for about 4 days. He was so kind to host me, let me borrow his bear canister for the Sierra and provide his address for a box of supplies I shipped from home. I received paper maps of the high routes, new Salomon[…]

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