The weekend of November 9, 2014, Jessica came down and we did some hiking in Panthertown Valley. We hiked towards Devil’s Elbow after ascending Little Green Mountain from Schoolhouse Falls, exploring some waterfalls along the way. We headed back out when we saw smoke coming from the…
At the end of September 2014, I had to go back to Utah for work. I thought I would be there for a couple of weeks, but plans changed after a few days, so Tracy bought a plane ticket and came out there to enjoy the fall…
We tried to backpack the weekend of August 30, 2014, but it was a horrible failure. First, we drove the Blue Ridge Parkway towards Brevard, NC, with plans to backpack at Shining Rock Wilderness. When we reached the trailhead near Black Balsam Knob, however, it was a…
On May 24, 2014, just after we moved from Utah to Alabama, David and I took a hike up the Brush Mountain Trail in the Citico Creek Wilderness. I decided that I wanted to hike all of the trails in Citico, and this was one trail I…
On March 22, 2014, David and Chris flew to Utah for a backpacking trip into Grand Gulch and The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. The basic plan was to do two nights in Grand Gulch and then four nights in The Maze. Of course, the weather…
On February 16, 2014, we met some friends in Moab and went hiking into the Needles District of Canyonlands. We started from Elephant Hill and hiked into Chesler Park. This hike was really pretty and Chesler Park was beautiful. The Needles is a really nice part of…
The weekend of February 8, 2014, we explored around southern Utah. We spent the night in Green River before heading into the desert. We first went to Ding Canyon in the San Rafael Swell. This was a nice hike in a slot canyon, with a few non-technical…