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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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Twin Peaks and Waterman Mountain are two splendid summits in the hinterlands of the San Gabriel Mountain range. This hike covers both summits
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The DeCaLiBron Loop in October might be late season but this year it was perfectly open and uncongested. A classic climb of four 14ers.
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Cone Peak is considered the tallest summit in the lower 48 directly overlooking the ocean. It is a challenging though incredible hike.
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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.
