on the John Muir Trail October 1, 2012 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated September 2, 2020 at 10:22 a.m. by Mary Beth Torgerson ...

The most arduous endeavors often have the biggest payoffs. That’s how it is with backpacking the John Muir Trail. The 210-mile wilderness trek in the Sierra Nevada range of California, named … ...

I think the John Muir Trail reminds me how to be myself. How to play. That I'm not God. That beauty can surprise you. And, the trout up there make grown men crazy.

Then I came home. And that's when things got difficult. I kept thinking of Nigel Dean, 50, and Tim Glenn, 47, two English buddies intending to hike the John Muir Trail.