#peakbagging — Public Fediverse posts

The Six

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-six/

The Six

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-six/

Off The Grid

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/off-the-grid/

Off The Grid

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/off-the-grid/

Whiteface and Passaconaway Pt 2

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/whiteface-and-passaconaway-pt-2/

Whiteface and Passaconaway Pt 2

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/whiteface-and-passaconaway-pt-2/

Whiteface and Passaconaway Pt1

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/whiteface-and-passaconaway-pt1/

Whiteface and Passaconaway Pt1

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/whiteface-and-passaconaway-pt1/

We passed an old fire lookout position on the way out, so there was more peakbagging to be had before leaving Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness in Mendocino National Forest.

For more info, check here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-hammerhorn-mountain.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#BFTA #backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #fireLookout

We passed an old fire lookout position on the way out, so there was more peakbagging to be had before leaving Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness in Mendocino National Forest.

For more info, check here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-hammerhorn-mountain.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#BFTA #backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #fireLookout

We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

We had a rest day, or more accurately a free day, in the middle of the week. I headed out to tag the Bigfoot Trail before some peakbagging and got three takers for the escapade. We went up Sugarloaf Mountain, pondered Minnie Lake, then even more climbing to Solomon Peak.

For more information, check here https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/06/last-camp-sugarloaf-mountain-minnie.html

#California #TehamaCounty #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakBagging #peakbagger #BigfootTrail

[1/3] Once more into the Trinity Alps Wilderness, this time to wander among many cabins. The 1st day of the 3 day loop started with flowers on the way to long sections of ridge walking. It featured many birds and burned areas to complete the day where a fire lookout once stood at the top of Cabin Peak. Except the day wasn't quite done because we did still need to get back to camp.

For more details, check here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/05/cabins-limestone-ridge-and-cabin-peak.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #TrinityCounty #KlamathNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #firelookout #peakbagger

[1/3] Once more into the Trinity Alps Wilderness, this time to wander among many cabins. The 1st day of the 3 day loop started with flowers on the way to long sections of ridge walking. It featured many birds and burned areas to complete the day where a fire lookout once stood at the top of Cabin Peak. Except the day wasn't quite done because we did still need to get back to camp.

For more details, check here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/05/cabins-limestone-ridge-and-cabin-peak.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #TrinityCounty #KlamathNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #firelookout #peakbagger

Wittenburg and Cornell

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/wittenburg-and-cornell/

Wittenburg and Cornell

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/wittenburg-and-cornell/

Woodland Valley

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/woodland-valley/

Woodland Valley

https://lifeasjackcom.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/woodland-valley/

In the West Salmon Mountains of Trinity Alps Wilderness, day 2 followed better trail, as we headed up to Horse Ridge Trail along Horse Trail Ridge, tagging Trinity Summit (Guard Station) and North Trinity Mountain along the way. It hardly ever lost us!

More details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/trinity-trinity-summit-and-horse-trail.html

#California #HumboldtCounty #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness #SalmonMountains
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger

In the West Salmon Mountains of Trinity Alps Wilderness, day 2 followed better trail, as we headed up to Horse Ridge Trail along Horse Trail Ridge, tagging Trinity Summit (Guard Station) and North Trinity Mountain along the way. It hardly ever lost us!

More details here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/trinity-trinity-summit-and-horse-trail.html

#California #HumboldtCounty #TrinityCounty #SixRiversNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityAlpsWilderness #SalmonMountains
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

2nd day: Starting off fighting snow, heading north on the PCT as the trail eventually gets to a ridge line walk. We headed up, appropriately, Big Ridge for the day's destination, then returned to Paradise Lake.

All the details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/04/paradise-big-ridge.html

#California #SiskiyouCounty #KlamathNationalForest #MarbleMountainWilderness #PacificCrestTrail #PCT
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #peakbagger #snow #lakes

[3/3] Day 3 backpacking Yolla Bolly: Finishing the circuit with two more named peaks to tag on the way. First Blue Slide by the side of the trail just before everything got dicey. Second Horsehead Mountain where three forests and three major watersheds meet.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-blue-slide-and-horsehead.html

#California #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #SixRiversNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilerness
#hiking #nature #landscape #outside #mountains #peakbagging #backpacking #hike #blogpost

[3/3] Day 3 backpacking Yolla Bolly: Finishing the circuit with two more named peaks to tag on the way. First Blue Slide by the side of the trail just before everything got dicey. Second Horsehead Mountain where three forests and three major watersheds meet.

More info here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-blue-slide-and-horsehead.html

#California #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #SixRiversNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilerness
#hiking #nature #landscape #outside #mountains #peakbagging #backpacking #hike #blogpost

[2/3] Day 2 backpacking Yolla Bolly: Headed up to Buck Ridge and up the yolla bolly (snowy mountains, well, mountain) of Shell Mountain. They really should all be yolla bolly at the moment.

More is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-buck-ridge-and-shell.html

#California #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #mountains #peakbagging #backpacking

[2/3] Day 2 backpacking Yolla Bolly: Headed up to Buck Ridge and up the yolla bolly (snowy mountains, well, mountain) of Shell Mountain. They really should all be yolla bolly at the moment.

More is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/03/shell-mountain-buck-ridge-and-shell.html

#California #TrinityCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #TrinityNationalForest #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #mountains #peakbagging #backpacking

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

The second day backpacking, there was much ridge views and even a peak to bag (Rattlesnake Mountain) along both the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail and the Boundary National Recreation Trail.

For more info, check this link: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twizt-red-devils-rattlesnake-mountain.html

#California #RougeRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #RedButtesWilderness
#backpacking #hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #mountains #peakbagging #PCT #PacificCrestTrail #BigfootTrail

On Monday, February 9, I climbed Cookes Peak, the highpoint of the Cookes Range in Southwestern New Mexico. Cookes Peak is a remarkable landmark, one I have often admired as we passed by on our autumn and spring migrations between Arizona and Oregon.

https://www.glassmountains.net/wp/cookes-peak-new-mexico-feb-2026/

#CookesPeak #CookesRange #NewMexico #Hiking #Peakbagging #HikeNewMexico #ExploreNewMexico #Mountains

If you’re a user or potential user of my peak bagging app Peakist, there is an update coming soon to add the 2026 Catskill Fire Tower Challenge with it’s 2 new towers.

I had hoped this could go out with a larger feature update that is coming along but I’m going to push the Tower list update and the new features will follow after.

Https://peakist.app

#Catskills #hiking #peakbagging

If you’re a user or potential user of my peak bagging app Peakist, there is an update coming soon to add the 2026 Catskill Fire Tower Challenge with it’s 2 new towers.

I had hoped this could go out with a larger feature update that is coming along but I’m going to push the Tower list update and the new features will follow after.

Https://peakist.app

#Catskills #hiking #peakbagging

Day 2 had the one peak to bag with its Buena Vista as well as some beautiful lakes to stop by: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/08/buena-yosemite-buena-vista-lake-and.html

#YosemiteNationalPark #California #MariposaCounty #MaderaCounty #YosemiteWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #Yosemite #peakBagging #peakbagger

Day 2 had the one peak to bag with its Buena Vista as well as some beautiful lakes to stop by: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/08/buena-yosemite-buena-vista-lake-and.html

#YosemiteNationalPark #California #MariposaCounty #MaderaCounty #YosemiteWilderness
#hiking #backpacking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #Yosemite #peakBagging #peakbagger

A few feet from the very top of the HIGHEST peak in ALL of California's coastal ranges (taller than the coastal ranges of Oregon and Washington, too) and this thing pops up into view.

...

First look at the mighty Mount Shasta while on the way up Mount Eddy. Eddy stands 9k feet (2751m), with 5k feet (1556m) prominence, but Shasta overshadows it a bit at 14k feet (3417m).

#hiking #peakbagging #peak #mountain #nature #landscape

A few feet from the very top of the HIGHEST peak in ALL of California's coastal ranges (taller than the coastal ranges of Oregon and Washington, too) and this thing pops up into view.

...

First look at the mighty Mount Shasta while on the way up Mount Eddy. Eddy stands 9k feet (2751m), with 5k feet (1556m) prominence, but Shasta overshadows it a bit at 14k feet (3417m).

#hiking #peakbagging #peak #mountain #nature #landscape

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

Day 3 was moving day and had lots of free time, so I got to hike the Wilderness high point, which happens to be the Mendocino National Forest high point too!

More here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/south-yolla-bolly-mount-linn.html

#California #TehamaCounty #MendocinoNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness
#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger #volunteering #NRT #BigfootTrail

I was very pleased that I made it up to the top of Cerro Grande. A few months ago, it would have been out of the question, but now I'm on some meds that are helping a lot. The doctors are still mystified as to what's actually wrong with my heart and what that means for the long term, but at least I can hike and hike while they figure it out.

Also: lots of #elk bugling. I couldn't find the sound recorder app on my phone, so I used Merlin to record a few clips.

#hiking #NewMexico #PeakBagging

I was very pleased that I made it up to the top of Cerro Grande. A few months ago, it would have been out of the question, but now I'm on some meds that are helping a lot. The doctors are still mystified as to what's actually wrong with my heart and what that means for the long term, but at least I can hike and hike while they figure it out.

Also: lots of #elk bugling. I couldn't find the sound recorder app on my phone, so I used Merlin to record a few clips.

#hiking #NewMexico #PeakBagging

Big new TestFlight build for Peakist, my #peakbagging, #hiking app. Adds support for tracking your grids (hikes in every season or month) and exporting visit data.

Also several more New England lists.

Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Full support for all the shiny new OS versions (and the old ones too)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/f9ASbSHj

#catskills #adirondacks

Big new TestFlight build for Peakist, my #peakbagging, #hiking app. Adds support for tracking your grids (hikes in every season or month) and exporting visit data.

Also several more New England lists.

Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Full support for all the shiny new OS versions (and the old ones too)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/f9ASbSHj

#catskills #adirondacks

Today's hiking group destination was Deception Peak, elevation 12,320'. I am, sadly, not up to a climb like that right now, so here's a photo from 2020.

#hiking #NewMexico #PeakBagging

Today's hiking group destination was Deception Peak, elevation 12,320'. I am, sadly, not up to a climb like that right now, so here's a photo from 2020.

#hiking #NewMexico #PeakBagging

Day 4 was for returning, but there was enough time for one more peak and a visit to the triple point. Water from there variously goes into the Smith River (via middle fork), the Illinois River (via east fork), and Klamath River (via Clear Creek).

The details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/preston-youngs-peak.html

#California #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouWilderness #SiskiyouNationalForest #RogueRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #DelNorteCounty #SmithRiverNationalRecreationArea

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakBagging #peakbagger

Day 4 was for returning, but there was enough time for one more peak and a visit to the triple point. Water from there variously goes into the Smith River (via middle fork), the Illinois River (via east fork), and Klamath River (via Clear Creek).

The details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/06/preston-youngs-peak.html

#California #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouWilderness #SiskiyouNationalForest #RogueRiverSiskiyouNationalForest #SiskiyouCounty #DelNorteCounty #SmithRiverNationalRecreationArea

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakBagging #peakbagger

Day 3 had thoughts of some diversions, then different, better, actual diversions while making some of the return. The higher, but not highest, peak was bagged.

The details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/preston-el-capitan.html

#California #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouWilderness #SiskiyouCounty #ElCapitan #notThatOne

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger

Day 3 had thoughts of some diversions, then different, better, actual diversions while making some of the return. The higher, but not highest, peak was bagged.

The details: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/preston-el-capitan.html

#California #KlamathNationalForest #SiskiyouWilderness #SiskiyouCounty #ElCapitan #notThatOne

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #backpacking #peakbagging #peakbagger

Next, the hike:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/black-rock-mountain-lookout.html
which visited the old Guard Station location and then climbed to the fire lookout location. Only one is still standing and none were entered.

#California #TrinityCounty #TehamaCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #dayhike #ShastaTrinityNF #TrinityNF #YollaBolly #fireLookout #nature #wilderness #publicLands #TrinityNationalForest #landscape #hike #travel #outside #peakbagger #peakbagging

Next, the hike:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/black-rock-mountain-lookout.html
which visited the old Guard Station location and then climbed to the fire lookout location. Only one is still standing and none were entered.

#California #TrinityCounty #TehamaCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #dayhike #ShastaTrinityNF #TrinityNF #YollaBolly #fireLookout #nature #wilderness #publicLands #TrinityNationalForest #landscape #hike #travel #outside #peakbagger #peakbagging

North Yolla Bolly as it starts to get engulfed in clouds once more. But it did come out for a view! And there's a view of the thick on the north, gone on the south snow conditions for 6000+ feet.

North Yolla Bolly is the p2k that got passed over in favor of checking out the decaying fire lookout on Black Rock Mountain more closely. I'll have to be back for it one day.

#MountainMonday #peakbagging #hiking #landscape

North Yolla Bolly as it starts to get engulfed in clouds once more. But it did come out for a view! And there's a view of the thick on the north, gone on the south snow conditions for 6000+ feet.

North Yolla Bolly is the p2k that got passed over in favor of checking out the decaying fire lookout on Black Rock Mountain more closely. I'll have to be back for it one day.

#MountainMonday #peakbagging #hiking #landscape

After the hard work getting there, the last 2 of 8 miles fighting the fading trail and thick fingers of snow reaching from the north side, we decided against climbing the lookout stairs for the big reward of a superior view.

#hiking #hikingAdventures #silentSunday #fireLookout #peakbagging

After the hard work getting there, the last 2 of 8 miles fighting the fading trail and thick fingers of snow reaching from the north side, we decided against climbing the lookout stairs for the big reward of a superior view.

#hiking #hikingAdventures #silentSunday #fireLookout #peakbagging

For #ThrowbackThursday: #OnThisDay in 2017, I made a start in the faint dawn light at the end of Templin Highway to bag the Lower Peaks Committee (#SierraClub) listed Redrock Mountain. They list the benchmark, anyway. The actual peak was my goal and is a little further along the ridge. I skipped looking for any cursed gold mines the area is known for and went for the more reliable reward of beauty. The narrows of Fish Canyon, a diversion into the canyons past Pianobox when I missed a turn, then high into a clearing sky where the last wild California condor soared before all were captured. Once headed down again, I took a different route, a repeat of a stunning canyon I had hiked before, but this time with enough light to see it.

It was a wonderful day and the whole story is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2017/03/redrock-mountain.html

#hiking #dayhike #nature #canyon #peak #peakbagging #TbT #OTD

For #ThrowbackThursday: #OnThisDay in 2017, I made a start in the faint dawn light at the end of Templin Highway to bag the Lower Peaks Committee (#SierraClub) listed Redrock Mountain. They list the benchmark, anyway. The actual peak was my goal and is a little further along the ridge. I skipped looking for any cursed gold mines the area is known for and went for the more reliable reward of beauty. The narrows of Fish Canyon, a diversion into the canyons past Pianobox when I missed a turn, then high into a clearing sky where the last wild California condor soared before all were captured. Once headed down again, I took a different route, a repeat of a stunning canyon I had hiked before, but this time with enough light to see it.

It was a wonderful day and the whole story is here: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2017/03/redrock-mountain.html

#hiking #dayhike #nature #canyon #peak #peakbagging #TbT #OTD

On Friday, February 7, I climbed Black Diamond Peak and Henry Peak (Peak 7155) in the southern Dragoon Mountains of Southern Arizona.

https://www.glassmountains.us/wp/black-diamond-henry-peaks-arizona-feb-2025/

#DragoonMountains #BlackDiamondPeak #HenryPeak #Peak7155 #Arizona #Hiking #Peakbagging #HikeArizona #ExploreArizona #Mountains

#ThrowbackThrusday things to do in February: backpack spots around the Smith River. In 2017, I hiked Elk Camp Ridge, bagged an old fire lookout, and chickened out about a creek crossing that actually didn't look that bad compared to what I got up to later in that year.

More info in the alt but the whole story starts with this post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2017/02/smith-river-cold-spring-mountain.html

When the rain stops, I might try some more of this.

#hiking #backpacking #peakbagging #camping #walking #nature #California #NorCal

#ThrowbackThrusday things to do in February: backpack spots around the Smith River. In 2017, I hiked Elk Camp Ridge, bagged an old fire lookout, and chickened out about a creek crossing that actually didn't look that bad compared to what I got up to later in that year.

More info in the alt but the whole story starts with this post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2017/02/smith-river-cold-spring-mountain.html

When the rain stops, I might try some more of this.

#hiking #backpacking #peakbagging #camping #walking #nature #California #NorCal