Excuse the headline. My guide swore me to secrecy. Suffice it to say that I spent a day on a rarely fished stretch of river near Yosemite National Park. Here are some of the 30+ fish we caught that day:

I met my guide at 9am, he hopped in my truck and we drove a short [...]

My original plan for the weekend was to head down to the Whitney region to climb the East Ridge of Mt. Russell. If it’s not on your list yet, it will be after reading this Sierra Descents trip report.
Getting into this area requires a North Fork Lone Pine Creek permit obtainable at the Eastern Sierra [...]

2010 marks the second year of the now annual Wanderlust Festival in Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe. Wanderlust offers a combination of some of the world’s best yoga practitioners and a variety of musical performers, all set in nature and the beautiful mountains that surround Squaw.
My friend, Sonja, and I arrived late Friday night [...]

Here, for your reading and research pleasure, is the ultimate Sierra Nevada Climbing and Backcountry Skiing tick-list – a compilation of compilations, if you will, with links for each adventure.
Each climb/route is linked out to more information at Summitpost and other information warehouses (and an SJ Trip Report if there is one).
“Ultimate” may not yet [...]

I credit the American Alpine Club (AAC) Sierra Nevada Section (SNS) with introducing me to two of the best kept secrets in the Sierras: the Lost Trail Lodge and ice climbing in Coldstream Canyon.
I first joined them for the annual event in February 2007 and then again over the weekend of January 29-31, 2010. [...]

In November 2007, a man died after climbing Cathedral Peak in Yosemite with his partner. They expected to return the same day but were trapped on the descent when it began to snow, and one climber succumbed to hypothermia. In June 2008, a man died on Rainier after a freak blizzard caught three [...]

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our newest Sierra Journal writer, Emilie Cortes. Here is an amazing trip report from an August Trip up Mt. Sill’s Swiss Arete, one of the Sierra’s great classic alpine rock routes. A perfect way to bid adieu to summer.
Before we travel to Sill, we must set the stage…In May 2008, [...]

I packed the gear the night before, Dara checked the weather, and I was even somewhat awake at 6 am.  It seemed like sneaking out on a Wednesday morning to drive to Lake Tahoe was shaping up to be an excellent idea. I had taken the day off from work to bring Dara (my climbing [...]

Another way to satisfy that impulse to scale the Sierras is on a bike.  Unlike mountain biking, all-day schleps on a road bike just don’t provide many thrills for me unless there are some big-ass hills involved.  Still, I laughed when my friend, Emilie, threw out the idea of signing up for the Ebbetts Pass [...]

“I need to get a peak”, Emilie Cortes declared.  After reaching our campsite at Francis Lake more quickly than we anticipated, we debated continuing our climb to the top of Mount Morgan in California’s John Muir Wilderness.
At 13,748 feet, Morgan is one of several mountains in the John Muir Wilderness that appeal to peak baggers [...]