Lost Again with Jim

In August of 2013 I made my first attempt to thru hike the 170+ mile Tahoe Rim Trail loop. I was forced to leave trail due to a serious injury. Months physical therapy followed. I tried again in September of 2019, but was sent home after only three days on trail by a massive, and unexpected Sierra snow storm. September of 2024 I made my third attempt. Follow along as I try to, finally,…

I spent two days and one night hiking in the Grouse Ridge area. Making it up as I went along. No plan. No set destination.

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Not every trip goes as planned. Not every trip is 100% awesome from start to finish. Sometimes you feel like crap.Sometimes you’re just not that into it.Sometimes sh*t goes sideways. Part One of one of those trips is live. Come along and watch me suffer. backpacking #hiking #adventure #wanderlust #nature #backpacker #camping #explore #outdoors #mountains #backpack #backpackers #hike #trekking…

Loch Leven Lakes Trail | Or: Getting Lost Close to Home

,In July of 2016 I took a pretty bad spill on the trail. It was a close call, and if I’m being honest it was almost the end of me. The accident fundamentally altered the way I look at the world. Every year since, I’ve made it a point to do something epic around the anniversary to celebrate the fact that I still can do things. This year I chose a section of the Pacific Crest Trial (PCT) that had…

Next April is a pretty big b-day for me. The big five-o. I’m trying to come up with a killer trip to celebrate. At first I thought I’d do a 50mile section of the PCT. Then I thought maybe 100miles? Hell, I just walked 77miles for nearly no reason! I could crush 50. Then I thought about the Lost Coast Trail. It’s been a bucket list trail for me for a couple years now. I’ve got some time to…

Today marks the one year anniversary of changing my YouTube channels name and image. In a lot of ways I think the channel was really born that day. Under the old name I was still trying to figure out what I wanted the channel to be. I found myself mimicking things I saw other outdoor channels doing. There wasn’t a lot of my personality in the content. With the name change, I also changed how I…

https://youtu.be/Kn2Ssf8yjTg Part II of my 77 mile section hike along the PCT is live! Watch! Like! Subscribe! Share!

This last weekend Kiki and hiked a very familiar trail close to home. The Loch Leven Lakes Trail. It wasn’t my first choice, hell it wasn’t even my third choice, but massive fires in the area forced me to make the best of it and pick something different. Some hiking is always better than no hiking. We got a pretty late start and made the trailhead around 10am. Loch Leven is a short hike, by my…

In August of 2020 Kiki and I tried to hike to Hyatt Lake in the Emigrant Wilderness. The trip went hilariously wrong. I followed bad directions to the trailhead and decided instead of trying to find the correct route, we’d just hike some extra miles to the trailhead, and then do the actual hike. Long story short, we didn’t make it. Not Hyatt Lake. This pond is as far as we made it. I’m…