This version has over 60 B&W photographs. A full color version is also available. In 1959, Hank Olesen led his small family on an adventure, or an "ex...peddience in the moun...tains" as he liked to say, with a put-on accent. After many campouts, and several one- to three-day hikes in the Mammoth Lakes, California area, Hank decided to tackle the BIG ONE, the John Muir Trail, which today is the highest elevation portion of the later completed Pacific Crest Trail. Begun in 1915, by 1959 the John Muir Trail was the only established long-distance trail in the Sierra, starting in the north at...