World Travel Backpacking

Filmed along the Kings Canyon High Basin Route (KCHBR) in late August - September 2021. It’s been 6 years since I last visited the Sierra Nevada range in California. At that time I was walking to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail, passing through some of these locations, but I left knowing there was so much more. The vastness made a life-changing impression that has occupied my thoughts across the years. Finally a chance came to go back to the Sierra Nevada and intentionally explore its scarcely visited depths. This trip came towards the end of a year marked with disillusionment, pain, crisis and loss for so many of us. My flame was dying out. But after spending 11 demanding and absorbing days in sun-blessed wilderness I feel the warmth of renewed embers again. When I recently came across this soundtrack by Jon Hopkins, East Forest and the spoken word of Ram Dass I knew what I had to do. I feel it captures some essence of why so many of us hike to heal. I hope it revives your embers if they’re going col