Big Bear Trails

Thanks to Driz at High Trails, there are 3 new trail videos highlighting some significant Big Bear Lake area trails:
Pine Knot (1E01) Trail

Grays Peak Trail

Seven Oaks Trail

While you can also view a detailed written Trip Report with lots of photos from my Mt Whitney summit, below is a short video of my 1 day solo climb of Mt Whitney via the Main Trail from Whitney Portal on June 20, 2011:

Thanks to a successful trail lottery, I had a chance to climb 14,505′ to the top of Mt. Whitney – the highest spot in the Lower 48 states – in a single exhausting day, via the Main trail, on June 20, 2011. See my video here. Due to the recent Spring storms and relatively early permit date, I didn’t quite know how much lingering winter to expect. The Ranger at the Station in Lone Pine (“Eastern Sierra Interagency Visitor Center”) confirmed some places had as much as 200% of normal …

The Big Bear Discovery Center is hosting a Wilderness First Aid course in Big Bear over the weekend of July 16 & 17, 2011. REI is collaborating with the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS to offer this comprehensive two day course that will teach the wilderness medicine skills needed to recreate with confidence in the backcountry. From the Patient Assessment System through traumatic, medical, and environmental emergencies, the wide variety of topics are designed to prepare you to act if an accident occurs. This is a 16 hour course over …

There are several variations on the Seven Summits theme. You can be among the mountaineering elite who climb the Seven Highest Summits in the world. If you are young, driven, and well-supported, you can be the youngest person ever to climb these 7 highest summits like Big Bear’s teenage Jordan Romero. Or for those with day jobs, you can do Big Bear’s annual Seven Summits Challenge, which encourages mere mortals to hike the 7 highest (and quite scenic) points around Big Bear Lake. Here’s another variation: do Big Bear’s Seven …