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11/10/2025

Flying✈️ above Patagonia in Chile, including the Strait of Magellan. Our preview of how spectacular this place is! W Trek Patagonia we are ready! 🤩🏔️

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11/02/2025

Patagonia training. We took a jaunt up Mt Lukens (5,075’) which was 5 miles of relentless climb to the top. Not much at the peak except radio towers, but the views of DTLA and SFV were incredible. 👀🌇
Bonus after hike, an AYCE KBBQ was literally only 5 minutes from trailhead! 😋🍻🍖
Total 10.5 miles, total ascent 2,870’, burned 1,706 kcal.

09/28/2025

Some of our Patagonia Crew training with at Bedford Peak.
Only 6 weeks before W Trek and we’re cranking up our prep. Training is all about climbing and not so much altitude. W Trek is not high altitude, but lots of climbing.
Bedford Peak in OC is less crowded, easier parking. It is arduous hike, climbing 2,000’ in 3 miles. Got lucky with overcast Fall weather. We did not see view at the top but temps are cooler at 60°.
After, we grabbed some tasty Mexican food for post-hike refuel.
Total 7.52 miles, total ascent 2007’, burned total 1,180 kcal.

06/22/2025

And we’re off! Meet and Greet Hike of my Patagonia crew as we commenced our training for the 5-days 50miles W Trek backpacking in November. This was probably the only time we will all be in the same state. Two of our crew hail all the way from Maryland!

06/21/2025

⛰️Mount Islip (8,251’) has been on my list and we finally made it. It was gorgeous day on the trail with lots of wildflowers🌷🌼 in bloom! It was steady climb all the way to the top. It also got hot 🥵 on our way down.
Mount Islip via Windy Gap Trailhead.
Total 8.72 miles, total elevation gained 2,402’, total 1,484 kcal burned.

10/29/2024

Detoured to Alabama Hills in Lone Pine before drive home. What gorgeous day to also get a glimpse of the majestic Mt. Whitney 🏔️! Then lunch at . .

10/27/2024

☑️ . I needed Fiona🐎 to get this one done. (Not really, but it was more fun this way).😅
Lake Crowley Columns is a unique geological formation in the Mammoth area at Lake Crowley, off Hwy 395. It was a thrilling 4WD to TH, then a steep 1/2 mile hike on loose sandy terrain down to the beach area where the columns are.

**Crowley Lake Columns are made of volcanic rock and were formed over 760,000 years ago as a result of a massive volcanic eruption. The columns are up to 20 feet tall and connected by high arches, and they have been compared to the ruins of an ancient Moorish temple. They had been buried and hidden for eons until the reservoir’s pounding waves began carving out the softer material at the base of cliffs of pumice and ash.

The volcanic blast was 2,000x larger than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which created the Long Valley Caldera, a massive 10-by-2-mile sink that includes the Mammoth Lakes area. It also covered much of the eastern Sierra Nevada range with a coarse volcanic tuff, or ash fall.

The columns began forming as snowmelt seeped into the still hot tuff. The water boiled, creating “evenly spaced convection cells similar to heat pipes,” according to the study to be presented next month in San Francisco at an American Geophysical Union meeting, the world’s largest conference in geophysical sciences.

Analyses by X-rays and electronic microscopes of samples of the columns found that tiny spaces in these convection pipes were cemented into place by erosion-resistant minerals.”

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10/26/2024

Chased some Fall colors 🍁🧡🍂 in the Sierras.

10/24/2024

We spied the comet 👀 💫
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). A once in a lifetime sighting.
NASA: “As of October 14, 2024, the comet’s path may take it out of the solar system altogether.” 😲
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10/02/2024

We embarked on a 4-days camping adventure and wellness getaway on Santa Cruz Island and invited some of my favorite adventure women. My sister Angel , a therapist in Seattle, led our daily circle of reflection. Afterwards, I shared my knowledge as a nurse on self-care focusing on our often neglected “roots” which are our feet 👣 that carry us for miles and miles as hikers.

My goal was to create fun and immersive experiences in nature, and instead made paths to beautiful strong sisterhood connection and healed our broken hearts 💔. Our lives are full of disappointments and hurt, and this was exactly what we all needed to be whole 🩷 again.

09/25/2024

Hi Guys,
This is the latest update on trail closures per USFS. The Angeles National Forest has issued a Bridge Fire Area Closure Order from September 21, 2024, through December 31, 2025. 😭
https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/angeles/alerts-notices/?aid=90800

09/04/2024

Our road trip from Mt. Rainier NP to Leavenworth, WA (quaint German-themed town) to hike to an alpine lake, Colchuck Lake (5,570’)—one of the two gateways of the infamous The Enchantments in the Cascade Mtns. Backpacking The Enchantments is on my bucket list. So this was kind of a beta test for that. The final ascent to the lake is steep and ROUGH (check out the rock strewn trail pics), but worth the spectacular scenery.
Total 9.5 miles round trip with 2629’ elevation gained.

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