Zion, Bryce and Red Rock Canyons: A Southwest Sampler *Zion Canyon, which we visited in March of 2013, is one of BecauseItzThere’s Best Places to hike in North America. We think it’s the best of the Southwestern US National Parks, excepting only Grand Canyon NP. Bryce Canyon and Red Rock Canyon aren’t chopped liver either. **Zion Canyon contains a pair […]
The Roof of the Smokies…The Gregory Ridge Trail
The Gregory Ridge Trail, Great Smoky Mountain National Park *One of the Best Hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains is the Gregory Ridge Trail **We have added Gregory Bald to our list of the Best Hikes in the Southern Appalachians. It’s a fine trail well worth doing IF you can make the logistics work…this is one trail where getting there […]
To Hike Beyond the Sunrise: Haleakala Volcano
Haleakala Volcano ***Haleakala Volcano via the Sliding Sands Trail, completed in 2014, is one of Brian and Sylvia’s Bucket List Hikes!*** The Great Shield Volcano of Haleakala, at 10,023 feet, dominates the island of Maui. In fact, its broad slopes comprise 75% of the island…this and another lobe of uplands give Maui its distinctive butterfly shape, while the lowland that […]
MOUNT CAMMERER, GSMNP
***This is a reboot of a post originally featured on the old blog of one of several hikes we did in October in the Great Smoky Mountains. The rest were nowhere near as good as this one (mostly due to weather.) This one bears mentioning as perhaps the best view in the entire park. Not mentioned below was the very […]
The Alum Cave Trail to Mt. Leconte
***This is a a re-boot of The Alum Cave Trail to Mt. Leconte Post featured on our old Blog in 2017…while Sylvia and I very much enjoyed this aerobically challenging hike, we don’t regard it is one of the best in we’ve ever done. In fact, there are better hikes in the Smokies…Mt. Cammerer for example! Apologies in advance for […]
OLD RAG MOUNTAIN
***Here’s a re-boot of the post I originally posted on our old blog site about a hike we did in September of last year…Virginia’s Old Rag Mountain. I have more and better pictures of the hike now. 🙂 Sylvia and I both consider this to be the Best Day Hike in the entire Southern Appalachian Mountains…IF you go when it’s […]
2016 Flashback…ONP
After leaving Rainier we headed south Olympic National Park. This is the only area of Washington, besides Seattle, that I have previously visited and was returning to. We had booked a few nights in the scenic Lake Quinault Lodge. Located in the Olympic National Forest, the Lake Quinault Lodge was built in 1926 and is a grand, historic retreat of […]
My Buddy, Rainier!
*We have added the Skyline Trail on Mt. Rainier to the list of Great Hikes in the USA and Canada! In my opinion there are seven natural wonders that every American should try to visit in his or her lifetime. They are: Yellowstone National Park The Grand Canyon Yosemeti National Park Grand Teton National Park Monument Valley Mount Rainier […]
2016 Flashback: The Pacific Northwest
While we put together some more adventures for next year, I want to go back and cover some of our adventures from the past few years. A few of them I delved into on the old blog, while others have never been showcased before. I’ll start with a trip we took in 2016 to the Pacific Northwest. Our goal for […]