Last year’s Silver Peak Loop was a loop of the western end of the Silver Divide. The counterpart to that loop for the eastern end of the Silver Divide is the Red & White Loop discussed he…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
Note: While I don’t get around to blogging about most of my adventures these days for various reasons, I’ll have a few posts coming up about summer and fall adventures from 2019! The Ma…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
It’s been awhile since I have posted on this blog but rest assured I have been busy with adventures virtually every weekend. This post provides an update on a project I started in 2018 to cat…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
Kaiser Peak is the 10,310 ft high point of a 10 mile long ridge that extends west from Kaiser Pass. The ridge is unusually alpine for being so far west of the Sierra Crest and several small glacier…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
Grand Ventana Traverse – Chews Ridge to Molera Beach via the Ventana Cones: April 12, 2019; James Bueno, Toshi Hosaka, Leor Pantilat, Sean Reedy Nestled deep within the 240,000 acre Ventana W…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
12,813 ft Recess Peak is located near the west end of the Mono Divide at the apex that separates the First Recess and Second Recess. The peak is steep on all sides except its south side which makes…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
It’s late April and the window for snow on Cone Peak (aka a “Snow Cone”) has all but closed. Winter (finally) came to California this year with an intense 6 week period of storms …| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
Sawtooth Mountain is positioned in the heart of the Trinity Alps. As the name would suggest, the mountain is rugged from all directions and is almost entirely composed of the glacier-polished white…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
At the north end of the Trinity Alps at the headwaters of Bear Creek lies a small slice of the much larger “White Trinities” to the southwest. This relatively small area contains the sa…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
The Kaweah Peaks Ridge is one of the more rugged and remote features of the High Sierra and its jagged profile is recognizable from virtually all directions. The ridge is a spur of th…| Leor Pantilat's Adventures
