DC Hiking & Backpacking Club

01/22/2019

If you plan to hike John Muir trail, you will find this guidance from our friend Marinel de Jesus is very helpful. Marinel, Thank you!!!

The John Muir Trail Avid backpackers aspire to hike the entire length of the John Muir Trail for good reasons.  Located in California’s Sierra Nevada, it spans 210 miles and passes through the Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Par

01/16/2019

This is a great international hiking trip led by a very experienced and brace lady. I am thinking about join her and her team for this trip. Any other ladies here like to join her and her team?

05/23/2018

Let’s go out hiking on it.

America’s next long trail should cross the Great Plains, says the path’s pioneer, Steve Myers. Will hikers share his vision?

05/23/2018

This is a sad accident. I recommend all our club hikers who climb trails with cable line to use a harness attaching to the cable line and use judgment when the weather is bad.

A hiker fell from the Half Dome cables in Yosemite National Park yesterday afternoon at approximately 4:30 pm. The male hiker was on the Half Dome cables hiking with another person during thunder storm activity. Park Rangers were notified that a hiker had slipped and fell off the Half Dome cables. R...