• New Year. New Office. More Blogs (soon).

    New Year. New Office. More Blogs (soon).

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    Jake Bramante

    Welcome to 2021! Amongst all of the craziness of the infamous 2020, we embarked on building a new house. You haven’t heard anything from Hike 734 at all because of that. Now that we are getting close to completing the house, I’ll be moving into my new office and will start editing the pile of…

  • Mirror Lake Loop and Snow Creek Trail

    Mirror Lake Loop and Snow Creek Trail

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    Jake Bramante

    In Yosemite National Park, Mirror Lake draws many visitors due to its very accessible trail and the chance to see Half Dome perfectly reflected in the water. The loop around this beautiful valley up and down Tenaya Creek is a popular one with Yosemite’s visitors. Very few hardy souls brave the steep switchbacks along Snow…

  • Skiing Grist Road to Fish Creek

    Skiing Grist Road to Fish Creek

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    Jake Bramante

    If you head west from Apgar in Glacier National Park and cross over McDonald Creek, the first road on your right is called Grist Road. Along this quaint road are a collection of private inholdings. The road dead-ends and one of Glacier’s few “bike-able” trails continues on to the Fish Creek Campground Road. I wouldn’t…

  • Barred Owl in Glacier

    Barred Owl in Glacier

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    Jake Bramante

    The journey is often the destination. We sometimes lose site of that as we hammer on to the lake, the summit, or the waterfall. The highlights, however, can often come as we’re heading to that “perfect social media spot”. We headed out on a mid-November day with Huckleberry Lookout as our rough “destination”. We weren’t…

  • Hike 734 Give Back 2019

    Hike 734 Give Back 2019

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    Jake Bramante

    **Final update!!** Click here to jump to learn more about the various partners and you can always donate You guys are great! Thanks for your amazing generosity for the 2019 Give Back to the Parks. We raised almost $7,000 for the parks! Totals are below (you can always donate throughout the year of course!): Glacier…

  • Climbing Great Northern Mountain

    Climbing Great Northern Mountain

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    Jake Bramante

    Great Northern Mountain just south of Glacier National Park is a beast of a mountain. Kristen and I tried summiting it a few weeks ago, but the weather was terrible and we wanted to do it when we could enjoy the views. While the day started off with the mountain shrouded in the clouds, they…

  • Knowing when to call it

    Knowing when to call it

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    Jake Bramante

    If you would have told me that it was going to be raining when we reached the ridgeline, we wouldn’t have even started. Great Northern Mountain just south of Glacier National Park is a fairly popular climb that I have yet to do for some reason. Kristen and I set out on Sunday morning to…

  • Climbing Clements Mountain

    Climbing Clements Mountain

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    Jake Bramante

    Every once in awhile I like (love) to take off my camera and binoculars and trade it for the lightest running pack I have. On Sunday, Kristen and I lightly loaded up our running packs and headed for the hills. We arrived up at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park along with a string of…

  • Next up, Rocky Mountain National Park

    Next up, Rocky Mountain National Park

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    Jake Bramante

    Well I just came back from my first trip down to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. What a beautiful (and massive) place! After hiking for two weeks straight, I know that I’m only scratching the surface. I’m not just arbitrarily down there, however, I’m starting work on my seventh day hike map guide. I’ve…