Most of the trails described below are fairly easy and don't require a guide or special hiking skills.
According to NBC, officials said the flash was not preceded by a heat trail from below – suggesting there's no indication the plane was struck by a missile.
I was out of breath, and the steep trail below us was full of miners, descending and ascending.
Eventually, the trail below opened up into a clearing — another frozen lake — before a set of peaks, and a makeshift dog village came into view.
"In winter, we look down at skiers on the trail below us," Richard Buckman, owner of Spring Mountain Adventures, told me as we stood shoulder to shoulder on a tree platform.
They calculated that to have snapped the waxing gibbous moon at exactly that height at that time, Adams must have set up his tripod just off the trail, below a stone hut at Glacier Point.
I'd forgotten the exhilaration of standing on a peak, unable to see the trail below, and pushing off with faith that you'll cut the mountain down to your size.
He tells a story of herding a couple hundred cows on a ranch in Nevada and taking them to the crest of a trail, below which lay a seemingly endless prairie.
I continued on the spectacular trail below more steep cliffs, which led into the narrows of St. John's harbor and a set of concrete bunkers and gun placements from World War II.
We found a changed landscape: Sandy had uprooted trees, washed out a portion of the trail below our house, and blown out some storm windows, which were scattered in pieces about the lawn on the south side of the house.
