For people like me, there is nowhere on earth that holds more meaning than the mountains.
A mountain is the one place where the imagination can fly and still be looking at something real. What stands in front of you is the record of a million years of fighting — thunderstorms, long frozen winters, the hot bayonet of the summer sun — and the granite held its shape through all of it. The lessons up there are endless, and they cost nothing. John Muir said it better than I can, more than a century ago: climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
If you live in California, there is no better place to collect those lessons than the Eastern Sierra. Muir called this range the Range of Light, and the name still holds. More than a hundred summits here stand above 13,000 feet. The eastern wall gains 10,000 feet over the Owens Valley in the space of a few miles. You can start the morning in sagebrush and be walking on snow by the afternoon.
EastAlp is for people who want that country without gambling on it. Every step we put into an itinerary is a step we have already taken. We don't publish a route until it has been researched, timed, and walked — in bad weather as well as good. The mountains don't owe anyone a good day. Preparation is the only part of it we control.
Our first season is 2027. If you want to be out there with us, join the waitlist.