Hiking and Adventures with Brian and Sylvia
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, […]
Fitz Roy: Day 3 **Completed in November 2019, Fitz Roy (Los Glaciares National Park of Argentina) is Sylvia and Brian’s sixth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike.** The day had finally come.This was the hike that we were looking forward to perhaps more than any other on this trip. This […]
Fitz Roy: Day 2 **Completed in November 2019, Fitz Roy (Los Glaciares National Park of Argentina) is Sylvia and Brian’s sixth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have ever ventured for a hike.** Our second day in El Chaltèn began gray and cloudy, just as the last one had. But the promise of a better forecast […]
Patagonia: Chile to Argentina **In November 2019 The Torres del Paine ‘W’ Trek became Sylvia and Brian’s fifth BucketList adventure completed together. It is also the furthest they have every ventured for a hike. Immediately afterward, we hit the road for Argentina to tackle yet another Bucket List adventure…Fitz Roy.*** Our adventure in Patagonia covered two weeks in total, and […]
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 […]
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 4 **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. With three legs of our hike completed, we had only two more to go. One, really; the last of these was simply a […]
Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 3 **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. No leisurely start today. We were up early for what promised to be the hardest day of this Trek.
Brian and Sylvia Are Back From Patagonia In November, while most Americans were eating their Thanksgiving turkey, Brian and Sylvia ventured to the most remote place we have ever hiked…in fact, it’s one of the most extreme places you can reasonably go, period. This would be Patagonia…extreme southern Chile and Argentina, travelling all the way to the Strait of Magellan […]
Brian and Fitz Roy Indulge In Some Male Bonding Adventures Recently Sylvia traveled back to Peru for a family visit. This left Brian and Fitz Roy alone to fend for themselves. Fortunately, obedience training has paid off handsomely. Brian has overcome his separation anxiety and is now much better able to handle such situations. This is the first time Brian, […]
Rocky Mountain National Park I: Emerald Lake We had one week to see as much of Colorado as we could. But it only took us maybe an hour after landing to start asking, “Why did it take us this long to get out here?” We boarded a nonstop flight in from RDU and spent the first night in Denver itself. […]