The emergency alert came through at 3:30 p.m. on July 2: A woman hiking alone on a remote mountain in the rugged Eastern Sierra was badly injured after a fall and needed rescue. While hiking through ...

Picking his way down an icy couloir in the High Sierra, the backpacker arrived at a ledge he couldn't descend. But he'd gone too far and also couldn't climb out. He was stranded in the snow - cliffed ...

Boy Scout Troop 26 rescued a stranded 78-year-old backpacker who had spent a night without food, water or shelter in the Sierra. Douglas Montgomery, an experienced wilderness survivor and former ...

Glimpsing a giant sequoia has to be one of the first things on a California bucket list. These colossal trees can grow to 300 feet tall and weigh more than 640 tons. Add to that the fact that they ...