Let me tell you about how I conquered the Sandy River and why I probably won’t hike the Timberline Line Trail again. First, I have to say that I am extremely glad I DID hike the Timberline Trail and would not NOT have hiked it. The company was wonderful with Greg from The Adventure Continues…
Jump to the recipe… Well, here I am not on a mountain… Biking rhymes with hiking, right? Here we are in May already and the truth is I have been doing more biking than hiking lately. I don’t have to drive far (or at all) and it is so easy to fit a ride into…
I have been reading this week on social media about how despite being at over 125% of our annual snowpack right now, we are also looking at the inevitability of drought conditions. The month of April was the driest it has been in years and they are already advising hikers to get the most out…
Last May while spending way too much time indoors just watching other people hike, I came across this documentary on Netflix, Figure It Out On The Hayduke by Alex Maier, on hiking this unique trail in the Southwest corner of the United States. If you want to take your backpacking up a serious notch, this…
I took a long weekend to spend some time down around Mount Rainier this March, hoping to not only revisit some places I had passed on the Wonderland Trail but to experience the park in the winter season for the first time. Last year I shared my 2015 adventure here on the blog, retelling about…
I have a mental bucket list of hikes and snowshoes I want to do in my lifetime with a snowshoe loop around Crater Lake being one of them. Ever since hiking to this national park on the Pacific Crest Trail, I always said I would come back to do a circumnavigation during the winter months….