Can We Do This Hike Over?

Reboots Required: Hikes That Didn’t Quite Pan Out Sometimes, things don’t go as planned. In the Appalachian Mountains, this happens more often than most hikers would like to admit. There is no dry or wet season…just wet and slightly wetter. About one out of every three days in the Appalachians is a bad weather day. Which means that, now matter […]

A Three For One Hike: Triple Falls

DuPont State Forest: Part II, Triple Falls **DISCLAIMER: While all of the waterfalls featured on Becauseitzthere can be safely hiked and enjoyed, be aware that there is GREAT RISK involved in venturing off trail near ANY of the waterfalls described here. We advise you to HIKE SAFELY. Please remember that you are responsible for your own safety on the trail. […]

The Other Table Rock

From the Archives: Table Rock State Park South Carolina *For those of you returning to the site after our absence, welcome back! We hope you like our newly re-designed blog. Our site archivist recently delved into the depths of our dusty old file cabinet and recovered a treasure trove of pictures from past hikes. Here’s the first of them…Table Rock, […]

Paine Grande

Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 5 **Completed in November 2019, The Torres del Paine ‘W’ hike is Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike. The word Paine, as in Torres del, is correctly pronounced “Pie-nay.” The word is thought to be indigenous Patagonian in origin (it has […]

Climate Change Threatens Mont Blanc’s Glaciers

Glacier Feared to be Close to Collapse, Forcing Closures If there weren’t already enough signs that the Earth is warming, here’s another; one of Mont Blanc’s glaciers has become unstable, and may be close to collapse. The Planpincieux Glacier, just to the northeast of Courmayeur on the Italian side of the mountain, is considered to be at risk of collapse […]