You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A confession, I’m a recovering peak bagger. Defined as an attempt to reach ...

From Denali to Mount Rainier to Mount Washington, the U.S. is full of majestic, towering peaks that have long challenged people to climb them. This story is not about those. This story is about ...

“Above this memorable spot, the face of the mountain is … a maze of yawning chasms and gullies, in the angles of which rise beetling crags and piles of detached boulders that seem to have been gotten ...

It had already been dark for several hours when Jeff Hashimoto began to fall asleep on his bike. It was Sunday, May 8, and Hashimoto was riding on a stretch of U.S. Highway 97 in central Washington ...

“I could not rest until the topmost stone was beneath my feet,” said John Muir. That’s right, nature-loving boys and girls: John Muir was a peak bagger.Long celebrated for his founding of the modern ...

Castle, Maroon, Capitol, Pyramid Peaks and Snowmass Mountain —all between 1,000 and 3,000 hiker days per summer. Some of Colorado’s 54 peaks over 14,000 feet in elevation get deluged with as many ...

How often have you stood before a glorious mountain range and marveled at the peaks and wondered: “What the heck are the names of those spires?” Just a few years ago you would have been out luck ...