Embedded into the backcountry areas of Zion National Park, the Sierra Nevada, Death Valley National Park, and the Mojave Desert, Courtney Purcell's ramblings have also taken him all across the country and the world. From hiking, climbing and peakbagging in the Rockies, the Andes, the high volcanoes of Washington and Mexico, into the depths explored in spelunking, and the canyoneering of the Colorado Plateau, here you'll find trip reports, route beta and "stuff" relevant to the world of...
Where: Mojave Desert, Southern Nevada
Partners: DB
On a hike up the obscure but close-to-town Game Benchmark (aka "Apex Peak"), I got the hell scared out of me by a rather large rattlesnake in a wash on the approach. DB decided to name him Sunny Bunny. Despite all the desert peaks she's bagged, Sunny Bunny was DB's first rattlesnake sighting.
