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 ...

Of all the challenging long-distance thru-hikes in the U.S., few are as difficult as the John Muir Trail. Though hiking ...

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 ...

Listening to Nora Croix describe her tribulations during a 19-day, 220-mile solo backpacking trip along the John Muir Trail in the High Sierra last summer, you might get the feeling that she never ...

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 ...

Chief Photographer Mike Rose was on a planned hiking trip of the 230 miles John Muir Trail when a fire broke out about 10 to 15 miles away from him. The first signs he and his two cousins noticed ...