The Straight Dope on Hiking Mauna Kea in the Winter
Mauna Kea is a heralded destination for peakbaggers and hikers alike. This is a straight discussion on hiking Mauna Kea in the winter.
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An outdoorsman and Nurse Practitioner living in Northern California. When I first started this blog, I was an EMT living in Southern California and this blog has followed...
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Mauna Kea is a heralded destination for peakbaggers and hikers alike. This is a straight discussion on hiking Mauna Kea in the winter.
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Of all the parks I’ve hiked and run through in a near-decade of living in the Bay Area, Alum Rock Park is towards the top of the list. I love this place. On paper, its just a municipal park on the East Side of San Jose. But its a surprisingly lush park with varied terrain...
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For years I’ve come to Keystone in July for an important work related trip. Every year I drive up from Denver and take Loveland Pass over the divide. There’s dozens of worthy mountains in the area. Grays Peak and Torreys Peak are the most prominent and well traveled. But there’s plenty of lesser climbed 13ers...
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With the closure Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway in September 2024 (for repairs/road upgrades) a normally congested 14er has become quite wild. Here’s an option for a wilderness hike of a Front Range favorite. I hiked Mount Blue Sky via the Chicago Lakes trail from Echo Lake Park in July 2025. Here’s some of my...
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The San Gabriels Granite Mountain is not the most scenic or well known summit of the range. However it lies on the famed Hundred Peaks Section maintained by the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club. Over the years of SoCal visits, I’ve ticked off a number of the more well-known summits. Hence, I’ve started working...
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I’m going off-script from my fanatical peakbagging in covering Bair Island Ecological Reserve. It’s fairly flat, urbanized and not exactly a destination for hiking. But good events in life have naturally contracted my world to a much smaller one. While I’ll eventually return to mountain climbing, I must find contentment in the mor...
Continue reading ...Adventure is out there! The Pursuit of Life is an outdoor adventure blog that’s dedicated towards providing guides on a variety of outdoor activities and wild places in the United States and Canada. This is a blog for people of all levels and experience and is not limited to any state, province or sport. Activities that are covered in this blog include hiking, mountain biking, climbing, kayaking, mountaineering, thru-hiking, caving, trail running, trekking, canoeing, ice climbing and general exploring.