Adventure Blog

  How a 30 day Adventure in the Wilderness Will Change your Life By: Kimball Stewart (For more details, visit Yosemite Leadership Expedition.) A short backpacking trip is often enough to instill delight and gratification beyond what many other activities can offer. By simply stepping

Five Backpacking Recipes You’ll Drool Over By: Kimball Stewart Most people equate backpacking food with dehydrated food. Simply adding hot water to a bag of ingredients is easy and surprisingly tasty, but it’s not the only way to eat in the backcountry. After a long day

What the Camino de Santiago teaches us about the first step. By: Will Heaps The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage that traditionally passes through the northern provinces of Spain. It was walked 1,000 years before Christ in celebration of the Spring Equinox and the

  The Best Yosemite Summits Without a Permit By: Otto Ross No Half Dome Permit? No Problem! While Half Dome is certainly an iconic Yosemite destination, acquiring permits in the lottery can be an arduous and frustrating ordeal. Here are five amazing summits in Yosemite

We love summer! It’s our season. The weather is warm, the grass is green and the backcountry campfires seem endless. So needless to say when we decided to offer winter trips for the first time we didn’t entirely know what we were getting ourselves into.

As the program director for Lasting Adventures, one of my favorite Yosemite backpacking memories is from my first trip guiding for Lasting Adventures during a summer camp in June, 2013. After 5 days of backpacking through the beautiful meadows of Lyle Canyon, swimming in chilly,

As the Chair of the Board of Directors for Lasting Adventures, I’ve managed to make a career, and a decent one at that, built on the rise of information and communication technology. Stop me when this sounds familiar, but I think we can all agree that the

It’s that time of the year again! The holidays are upon us, and we want to encourage everyone to think about what their family would really benefit most from in 2015. Here at Lasting Adventures, we believe in the power of adventure, specifically that of the

A collaboration between UC Davis School of Education & Lasting Adventures Adventure Enrichment Camp for students exiting grades 9-12 An opportunity to explore how human, animal, and environmental health are linked while backpacking through the backcountry of Yosemite National Park. This week-long camp will use

Lasting Adventures, Inc. to offer 50% offYosemite Adventure Summer Camps for Gateway Youth. For our youth living in the Yosemite Gateway communities there has never been a better time to, as John Muir put it, “throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea

Yosemite Summer Camp Tradition After nearly a full week of adventure in Yosemite National Park, each youth participant in our summer camp backpacking series is “branded” with a bracelet. This “Adventure Bracelet” as it has come to be named, serves to remind the youth about