In her effort to set a new FKT on the John Muir Trail, Caroline Himbert suffered painful blisters, an injured knee, and hallucinations so intense her team almost called for rescue. For all that effort ...

The John Muir Trail is 210 miles of breathtaking landscape in California’s Sierra Nevadas that begins in Yosemite Valley and ends at the top of Mount Whitney. The John Muir Trail is 210 miles of ...

The Sierra’s granite peaks soar high above the thick pine forests that tower above lush meadows. Multi-hued wildflowers in a riot of color find purchase in every nook and cranny in early summer. Azure ...

"We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind," -- Salman Rushdie, "Shalimar the Clown." In the age of Big Data we measure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The drive to Yosemite was freeing, void of the usual pre-FKT anxiety. I was proud to go after a goal that scared me. It wasn't my ...

An iconic trail in Yosemite is closed indefinitely after hundreds of boulders fell on it, national park officials said in a statement. The substantial rockfall occurred April 15 and covered the John ...

Yearning to hike the John Muir Trail but didn’t win a coveted lottery permit? There’s a bot for that. Scoring a permit for the southbound trail from Yosemite to Mount Whitney is perhaps the most ...

John Muir was born in Scotland on April 21, 1838. His family moved to the United States when he was 11 years old and settled in Wisconsin. Muir was an inventor, farmer, sheepherder, logger and ...