Count Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. among Yosemite’s biggest fans. This spring, the brewery is featuring a special collection of ...

The Pacific Crest Trail Association warns that hikers must stay alert as bear sightings increase — even outside of the normal ...

The first streaks of blood-orange light filtered in above the horizon as we began our journey on the John Muir Trail ... other and the mountains. The Sierra Nevada seemed to outdo itself every ...

That’s where Ranger Dario Malengo was preparing to wrap up his 42nd season in the Sierra Nevada backcountry. Malengo is responsible for an area that covers about 18 miles of the John Muir Trail ...

Did you know San Francisco is surrounded by national park sites? That's right, plan your next national park adventure in San ...

A lone backpacker heads toward a campsite at Silver Pass Lake, located along the John Muir Trail ... The Sierra National Forest, which spans the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains ...

In 1903, the American conservationist John Muir — legendary ... flame restaurant in Adelaide, I took in Muir’s delirious descriptions of the Sierra Nevada and sequoias, which he called ...

I first experienced the Sierra Nevada while thru-hiking the ... That was also my first foray on the John Muir Trail, as much (but not all) of the 211-mile JMT overlaps the PCT.

Even among long trails, the John Muir Trail, colloquially called the JMT, is unique. It hovers around 8,000 feet for most of its 211 miles, crossing six major mountain passes in California’s Sierra ...

the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. John Muir called them “the bravest of all the Sierra mountaineers,” and indeed they have weathered both ancient and modern climate extremes, human-introduced ...

John Muir, "The Mountains of California," 1894 Historically, grizzly bears and wolves that once lived in the Sierra Nevada might have kept the mountain lion population in check. "We know that ...