This site presents photographs, video, maps, and other information from selected backpacking treks I have completed over the last 20 years or so. 

Photos, videos, and maps of the recent Sierra trek can be accessed using the 2011 Trek menu above.  The trip from the top of my bucket list can be found here.  Click on "Past Treks" on the menu above for other places. I have re-loaded my travel journal from the 2010 Nepal trek.

Please feel free to contact me if you are considering any of these treks.  I would be pleased to help.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
                                        ~ Peter Matthiessen, "The Snow Leopard"

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.    
                                    ~ Mark Twain

Do not imagine that the journey is short; and one must have the heart of a lion to follow this unusual road for it is very long… One plods along in a state of amazement, sometimes smiling, sometimes weeping.
                                          ~ Farid ud-Din Attar