Backpacking Trips

• 2022: September 19 - 26 Kings Canyon Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Alan
  7 Nights, 8 Days, 43 Miles Backpacking

• August 8 - 14, 2022 Desolation Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  6 Nights, 7 Days, 22 Miles Backpacking, 11 Miles Day Hiking

• 2022: June 6 - 17 Kings Canyon Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  11 Nights, 12 Days, 22 Miles Backpacking, 35 Miles Day Hiking

• August 9 - 18, 2021 Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  9 Nights, 10 Days, 27 Miles Backpacking, 30 Miles Day Hiking

• 2021: June 21 - 28 Paynes Lake, Russian Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  7 Nights, 8 Days, 5.4 Miles Backpacking, 22.4 Miles Day Hiking

• 2020: August 11 - 18 Emigrant Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  7 Nights, 8 Days, 25 Miles Backpacking, 12 Miles Day Hiking

• 2020: June 15 - 26 Marble Mountain Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  11 Nights, 12 Days, 24 Miles Backpacking, 18 Miles Day Hiking

• 2019: August 16 - 25 Emigrant Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  9 Nights, 10 Days, 22.6 Miles Backpacking, 50 Miles Day Hiking

• 2019: June 17 - 18 Sentinel Dome Hike

  Bob and Reenie

• 2019: March 11 - 19 Catalina Island Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Alan
  6 Nights, 6 Days, 39 Miles Backpacking, 9 Miles Day Hiking, Total Uphill Hiking/Backpacking: ~14,000'

• 2018: September 1 - 9 Half Dome and Whitney (and Santa Rosa and Armstrong Woods and San Francisco) Trip

  Bob and Molly
  8 Nights, 9 Days, 20 Miles Backpacking, 20 Miles Day Hiking, Total Uphill Hiking/Backpacking: +19,800'

• 2018: August 9 - 20 Dinkey Lakes Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  12 Nights, 13 Days, 19 Miles Backpacking, 60 Miles Day Hiking

• 2018: July 8 - 17 Trinity Alps Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  9 Nights, 10 Days, 29 Miles Backpacking, 12 Miles Day Hiking, Total Uphill Hiking/Backpacking: +14,500'

• 2017: September 20 - October 2 South Warner Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  12 Nights, 12 Days, 20 Miles Backpacking, 35 Miles Day Hiking

• 2017: August 14 - 21 Ten Lakes Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  27 miles backpacking, 11 miles day hiking, 11 miles hitchhiking

• 2016: September 8 - 18 Trinity Alps Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  Backpack Through Stuart Fork and Deer Creek Canyons: 10 Nights, 11 Days, 34 Miles Backpacking, 26 Miles Day Hiking, Up and Down Over 15,000' Elevation

• 2016: August 8 - 16 Hoover Wilderness/Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  Backpack Virginia Lakes in Hoover Wilderness to Tenaya Lake in Yosemite: 8 Nights, 9 Days, 32 Miles Backpacking, 8 Miles Day Hiking, 20 Miles Hitchhiking

• 2015: September 8 - 18 Sierra National Forest/Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  Backpack Chiquito Lake/Pass in Sierra National Forest to Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley: 10 Nights, 11 Days, 51 Miles Backpacking, 9 Miles Day Hiking

• 2015: August 9 - 18 Yosemite/Ansel Adams Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Reenie
  Visit Yosemite Valley; Backpack Tuolumne Meadows to Agnew Meadows near Mammoth Lakes: 9 Nights, 9 Days, 30 Miles Backpacking, 14 Miles Day Hiking

• 2014: September 3 - 13, 2014 Emigrant Wilderness/Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  Crabtree Trailhead in Emigrant Wilderness to Twin Lakes in Yosemite and back : 10 Nights, 11 Days, 45 Miles Backpacking, 30 Miles Day Hiking

• 2014: August 2 - 13, 2014 Whitney/Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Alex, Bob, Ethan, and Martin
  Mt. Whitney Summit, Rush Creek Trailhead (June/Silver Lake) to Yosemite Valley: 10 days, 10 nights, 100 miles

• 2014: April 12 - 16 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Backpacking Trip

  Bob, Alan, and Brian
  Grandview Trail/East Tonto Trail to Hance Creek, Cottonwood Creek, Horseshoe Mesa and back: 5 days, 4 nights, 14 miles; plus day hikes

• 2013: August 27 - September 2 Sierra National Forest, Ansel Adams Wilderness, and Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  Fernandez Trail Head (Sierra National Forest) to Breeze Lake (Yosemite) and back: 7 days, 6 nights, 28 miles; plus day hikes

• 2012: July 25 - July 30 Yosemite and Ansel Adams Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jennifer
  Tuolumne Meadows to Rush Creek Trail near Silver Lake: 5 days, 4 nights, 34 miles; plus Lambert Dome

• 2011: September 4 - September 12 Yosemite and Ansel Adams Wilderness Backpacking Trip

  Bob
  Happy Isles to Agnew Meadows: 8 days, 7 nights, 70 miles; plus some hitch hiking

• 2010: September 13 - September 18 Lone Pine Lake and Mt. Whitney

  Bob and Shirley
  With Visit To Yosemite and English Hitchhikers
  Whitney Portal parking lot to Lone Pine Lake and back: 1 afternoon, 6 miles
  Whitney Portal to Summit and back: 2 days, 1 night, 20.8 miles

• 2007: September 14 - September 22 From Inyo To Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob, David, and Chris
  4 Days, 4 Nights, 35 miles; With Visit To San Francisco and Hitchhiking

• 2003: July 22 - July 30 From Glacier Point to Happy Isles, Yosemite via Red Devil Lake Backpacking Trip

  Bob, Shirley, David, and Brad
  7 Days, 6 Nights, 60 miles

• 1986: September Glacier National Park

  Bob and Shirley

• 1973, September 19 - 30 Kings Canyon Backpacking Trip

  Bob
  11 nights, 11 days, 70 miles

  Wednesday, September 19 to Sunday, September 30, 1973

• 1971: September in Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Jenny
  10 Days, minimum of 45 miles, probably quite a bit more

• 1970: December 26, 1970 - January 2, 1971 Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob, Connie, and Ray
  8 Nights, 8 Days, (? miles)

• 1970: Fall Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob and Ellen
  2 Nights, 2-3 Days, 6 - 10 miles

• 1969: September 6 - September 20 Mt. Whitney, then Inyo to Yosemite Backpacking Trip

  Bob, Dave, and Dale
  12 Nights, 13 Days, around 130 miles

Other Websites
By The Author:

• All Foreign and Domestic Adventures
• The Tower and The Mouse:
  UC Berkeley in the '60's
• His Genealogy: w/
  Civil War Diaries
• Bob's YouTube videos:
  Includes African lions taking down and eating buffalo
• Calorie Restriction Diet
• Military Insignia:
  Mostly pre-WWII
• NeighborhoodNet
  • "The Most Dangerous Man in Overland Park,
    Web master and wife dedicate themselves to local development issues"
    by Rob Roberts, The Sun Newspapers
• A Journey of Survival My Memoir of World War II by Raymond Witges, March 12, 2000