Rocky Mountain National Park III: Horseback Riding in Moraine Park For our third adventure in Rocky Mountain National Park we had originally planned yet another hike…though it would have to be a shorter one, for we planned to change our base at the end of the day to further west. However, Brian, the Minister of Expedition Planning, had an inspired […]
Top Ten Hikes in the Northern Appalachians
Our Ten Best Hikes in the Northern Half of the Appalachian Range Brian and Sylvia are based in North Carolina, and almost all of the Appalachian hikes you will see on these pages take place in the Southern arm of the range. This is our backyard and it is where we are currently exploring. However, Brian is originally from up […]
The Countdown to Patagonia: Torres Del Paine
Our Torres Del Paine Logistics Are Nearly Complete The time for Patagonia is fast approaching. Every resource available to us tells the same tale…book months in advance, especially for popular Torres del Paine, or else lose out. In days past it was possible to show up at this park with a tent, a pair of legs, a will, a few […]
And Yet MORE How to Spend the Summer in the South
What To Do When It’s Too Hot To Hike: Part II In our last post we talked about some of the ways to beat the heat in the Carolinas. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, it’s too hot and buggy for hiking through the woods and mountains to be a fully enjoyable experience. However not everything you can do to […]
Tour du Mont Blanc Epic Video
Tour du Mount Blanc trekking season is underway in the Alps.! For those about to embark upon Alpine Europe’s most celebrated hike, or considering the tour at some point, check out our short highlight video of the experience. If these views don’t inspire you, what will? We made GREAT memories on the TMB that will last a lifetime!
…What’s Not (Yet) in the Bucket List
The Bucket Reserve List: Potential Future BucketList Destinations Alas, our Bucket runneth over. Or maybe that should read…”Yippee! There’s too much cool sh-t to do!” Brian and Sylvia hope to complete all the BucketList adventures in about ten years…or at least as many as they can in that time. But we’ll always be adding new adventures to the Bucket. Here’s […]
Top Ten Hikes in the Southern Appalachians, Version 1.0
For some time we’ve been toying with the idea of publishing a list of our Favorite Hikes in the Southern Appalachians. We have a whole page devoted to the subject of course…but we have never published this as an actual ranked top ten list. Mostly this is because we didn’t feel we’d hiked enough times hereabouts to get a real […]
BucketList: The Far Side of the World
The Most Exotic Places on the Bucket List …And once more into the bucket we go! As promised here are landing pages for the rest of our BucketList destinations by region. Some of these are among the most exotic and far flung of our wish list! Click on the links or pictures below to see the landing page… Photo credits […]
Everest, Traffic Jams…and Death.
I think by now almost everyone who follows news in the outdoor world has seen this incredible photo. A queue reported by CNN to be over 300 people waits in the ‘death zone’ (above 8000 meters) just below the summit of Everest. Of the over two hundred climbers who have died on Everest, most have died in the death zone. […]
Is There Still Time to Plan for the Tour Du Mont Blanc?
Want to hike the Tour du Mont Blanc — Europe’s most celebrated Alpine hike — this summer? Well, you better get cracking…The trekking season gets under way in less than six weeks. Realistically, you probably should have started planning for it already. Sylvia and I did the complete tour in late July of 2018. But we began our bookings in […]