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This week's hike was about finding and enjoying crack, walking with yoda who is as wise as they say, and battling a wee bit of frostbite,...

After a rough week that tested my hope for humanity, I really needed my time alone with God in the woods! We had a lot to talk about and...

Let me share a good life lesson with you.....using a beaver damn to cross a raging deep river is not necessarily the wisest plan. While...

Sometimes you just want to wear the Wolf as a shelter from the storm. At least that is what Nova wanted on this rocky peak in the Badger...

When you hike on a stormy day, you better be prepared to get wet and cold! But we knew we were stronger than the storm, so we set out to...

I truly think I might be my own worst enemy. I do this to myself and I can't explain why. There is something that happens to me when I...

Well, we broke some personal records on this hike, but we hadn't intended to. The hike was 18 1/2 miles, which is not our longest by any...

I figured if Armageddon or the Zombie Apocalypse occurred, it would only be wise to know all the back roads possible in case I needed to...

As I lay in bed in the early morning hours on hiking day and listened to the rain and wind pound my window and could see the tall...

We were on the hunt for the elusive sulfur water Eel on today's hike. I know that sounds a bit strange, but since you know me, that...

For the last 35-40 years of my life I have seen a framed 8x10 photo hanging in my parent's home. It was one of my Dad's hiking photos and...

Today I learned that there are still a few gentlemen left in the world and I was given hope for humanity after all. It was a good omen...

So hiking in the last week of August should mean skinny dipping in high elevation lakes. The three of us were mentally prepared for that....

This hike made us think we could pass through time, had us picking up garbage that forced us to try extra hard to not die all night, and...

The weather this week had been intent on killing us. Hiking day was our fourth day over 100 degrees in a row. The nights were not cooling...

So I accepted the fact that I was going to be climbing an angry mountain, I just didn't know that I was going to be summiting in a storm...

All I wanted and needed from this week's hike was something easy. I didn't want to bleed or fall off any cliffs or get lost or fear dying...

This week's hike made last week's cliff dive seem like a cake walk. But where there is a will, there is a way. However, I will admit that...

This week's hike comes with a story of falling off a cliff, being cased all night by a pack of tough and territorial coyotes and having...

Oh merry of soul am I, just as the song goes! I was about to embark on a new trail that I have been waiting months for! It was in...