![Donohue Pass](https://i0.wp.com/www.hikerly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/DSC00049.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
It was September 2010. Three friends and I decided to do something we’d never done before: backpack a segment of one of the United States’…
![Backpacking over Donahue Pass on the John Muir Trail](https://i0.wp.com/www.hikerly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/DSC00049.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
A year ago I was training for an epic adventure: Backpacking the northernmost approximately 60 miles of the John Muir Trail. It was a 6-day…