Welcome to the AvidBackpackers.com website. There are now over 100 detailed trip descriptions with maps and pictures of backpacking trips in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierras!
Latest trips include Wildcat Camp and Alamere Falls at Point Reyes National Seashore, Hidden Lake (in El Dorado National Forest), Glacier Lake (in Tahoe National Forest), Eagle Spring Backpack Camp, Bull Run Lake in Carson Iceberg Wilderness (in Stanislaus National Forest), and Stewartville Backpack Camp in Black Diamond Mines. Or use the map below to select an area you are interested in.

Secret trips not on map (they are off the map, not really secret, just hard to find)