Field notes from building a guiding company in the Range of Light — the paperwork, the scouting, and the light itself.
Five short walks with outsized payoff — most under a mile, none over four. Scored on a weighted system built for easy hikes, with directions, fees, distances, elevation, and the peaks you'll be looking at. Two of them are among the best hours you can spend in California, and neither will make you sweat.
Read →We scored the Eastern Sierra's most dramatic day hikes on five weighted criteria — scenery, water, reward per mile, access, and solitude. Here are the top five, counted down, with trailhead directions, permits, mileage, elevation, lakes, and the peaks you'll be looking at.
Read →The second half of our ranking, scored on the same weighted system: trails ten through six, with trailhead directions, permits, mileage, elevation, lakes, and the peaks you'll be looking at. One of them has the single most dramatic skyline in the range and still didn't crack the top five.
Read →For people like me, nowhere holds more meaning than the mountains. Here's why I'm building a guiding company in the Range of Light — and why we won't publish a route we haven't already walked.
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