Over the New Year’s weekend of 2017, we headed to the mountains of North Carolina. We spent some time in Brevard and learned that the Blue Ridge Parkway is closed near Brevard in the winter. So then we headed to Franklin and hiked up to Siler Bald…
On November 5, 2016, we went to Tellico to hike along Bald River We have hiked the Bald River Trail inside the Bald River Gorge Wilderness many times, but I wanted to hike the trail on the opposite side of Forest Road 126. This trail is called…
Canyoneering in Utah in 2016. We did Baptist Draw, Little White Roost, White Roost, Moonshine Wash, Big Spring, High Spur, and Larry Canyon.
Bluff River Cave in northern Alabama was a surprise: it was much nicer than we expected. Which was even funnier because we had actually been here before but couldn’t remember much about it. So, on September 25, 2016, we took a trip up to Bluff River to…
On September 25, 2016, Layne, Tracy, and I took another trip to Bluff River Cave. I had been to this cave once before, but I’d really forgotten how pretty it is. The cave has a little mud slide at the entrance, and there’s some stream walking, but…
On September 10, 2016, I took a caving trip with the Huntsville Grotto. We planned to go to one private cave, but we couldn’t find the landowner to get permission, so we headed to Herring Cave in Madison County. It’s an easy walk from the road to…
For the second half of my three week trip out West in August 2016, I went to the Flat Tops of northern Colorado. I love this mountain range because the flat-topped mountains are unique and the area is just really pretty. The weather was bad for the…
The Beartooth Plateau competes with the Winds and the Sierra Nevadas as the prettiest mountain range in North America. Add it to your bucket list.
In August 2016, I had an ambitious plan to spend three weeks in the Rockies. For the first part of the trip, Tracy and I drove from Alabama to the Beartooth Mountains outside of Cooke City, MT. This was where we planned to spend the first week…
