Summer in the Alpine

Summer moments in the alpine are some of my favorite moments of each year. But this past summer of 2022 I decided to push myself to go further and faster while on my solo trips into the mountains. I chose to use the mountains that I was familiar with, so I chose the Sierra Nevada's that surround Lake Tahoe. My objective was to try and go further than 20 miles in less than 8 hours of moving time. But I was not going to be running, I was going to be hiking and shooting photos the entire way, which would make this objective quite hard to hit. But another obstacle would end up being a bigger hurdle. Wildfires in Northern California can make summers nearly impossible to safely hike in. And thi...View all