M ore than 1,500 people attempt to walk the entire John Muir Trail every year. A bit more than half of them succeed in a good year, with less than a third making it through in a year with natural ...

An iconic trail in Yosemite is closed indefinitely after hundreds of boulders fell on it, national park officials said in a statement. The substantial rockfall occurred April 15 and covered the ...

John Muir in 1912 From north to south the trail starts in Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley and winds to Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. The 221-mile trail ends ...

That was also my first foray on the John Muir Trail, as much (but not all) of the 211-mile JMT overlaps the PCT. I was so inspired that over the next ten years I returned to the JMT three ...

the 211-mile John Muir Trail has a reputation of immeasurable proportions. Making its way onto the proverbial bucket list of nearly every serious outdoorsman, it is not only a showcase of the ...

Joe McConaughy trekked the John Muir Trail two years ago in record time, a feat of near-nonstop forward motion in which he covered 223 miles of High Sierra terrain in 3 days, 1 hour and 34 seconds ...

Fox, a vocal leader of the Alhambra Hills Open Space Committee, said his group envisions that trail section being a key component of a proposed 17-mile John Muir Heritage Trail, a loop that would ...