Hiking South Sister while out of shape: A 10 hour journey

Why hello there!  Since I moved to Oregon in August, I’ve been trying to get back into hiking shape (those two years in the flatlands of Virginia really hurt my hiking, y’all!).  It’s been a slow process with a lot of warm-up hikes like Iron Mountain and Kings Mountain, but this weekend I decided to go whole hog and hike South Sister.  The result was ….as painful as anticipated 🙂 .

Mt. Shasta spring climb

Hi everyone!  David here.  I’ve been doing a real bad job getting outside in California, but I finally took a little time off and headed up to Mt. Shasta about a month ago.  Mike had 5 days off of work, my dad drove down from Corvallis, and we converged on Shasta for a weekend climb.