The weekend of October 10, 2015, we took a trip up to Virginia to hike around Grayson Highlands and to see some fall colors. Of course, like everything else we’re learning since we moved back east, lots of other people had the same idea. We drove into…
The Wind River Range is an incredible trip and its iconic granite basins and glaciers are a bucket list hike.
On July 26, 2015, my friend Aaron and I took a dayhike up to the Walls of Jericho in north-eastern Alabama. The hike starts at the top of the canyon and drops steeply down into the river drainage. This is a very popular trail, but there weren’t…
The weekend of May 9, 2015, Tracy and I took a backpacking trip to the Chattooga River on the border of South Carolina and Georgia. This was our first backpacking trip into the Appalachians since we moved back east, and I wanted to be sure Tracy enjoyed…
The Northern Lights were my goal. I’ve seen lots of photos of the aurora, but I’ve always wanted to see them in person. So I decided we would go to Iceland and try to see the lights. Of course, you have to go when there is darkness,…
On April 4, 2015, my wife, a couple of friends, and I went to Tumbling Rock Cave in Jackson County, Alabama. Jackson County has the distinction of having the highest number of caves of any county in the country. And from what I have seen so far,…
On December 26, 2014, David and I went up to Bald River Falls in Tellico to get some pictures of the waterfall. [mapsmarker marker=”83″]
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…
