Back in 2013 I purchased a postal scale, a suggestion I found in one of the most helpful backpacking books: Ultralight Backpacking Tips by Mike Clelland. Its purpose was to be able to compare the weights of what you put in your backpack so as to get down to the lightest possible weight for you….
JUST DON’T DO IT. NOT SAFE. NOT WORTH IT. LOST TRAIL. And if you are still thinking about doing it, it would be 18.9 miles round trip from the trailhead. Still here?? Well, Elizabeth and I set out for a few days on the Siouxon Creek Trail in mid-August (2022) as we have been planning…
Ever since the hubs and I spent time snowshoeing on Segelson Ridge, he has wanted to go back and summit Mount Higgins. He’s been out a few times now in hopes of tagging the craggy peak after researching other people’s tracks but without success. Labor Day weekend was the one weekend the hubs and I…
Well, hello! Or should I say hello again? Either way, let’s chat. January 6th marks the 7th anniversary (or blogiversary in blogging world) of this here blog, Must Hike Must Eat. Of course, in the last 7 years the blog has bloomed to more than 585 posts and 370 pages making it more of…
Jump to the recipe… One of my favorite pandemic reads was a memoir, Crying In H Mart, by Michelle Zauner. From Goodreads: A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in…
I can’t remember when I first learned that there was an “old” Sauk Mountain Trail that had been decommissioned when they built the “new” Sauk Mountain Trail but ever since, I have wanted to find it and hike it. Maybe it was while perusing the pages of NWHikers or maybe I saw a hint of…