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 […]

The Towers of Paine

Patagonia: The W Hike, Day 1 **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. (We are skipping past our first full day in Puerto Natales, which was basically spent on buses in hot pursuit of our ‘misplaced’ […]

And Still More Walks With Humans!

More Walks With Humans: Falls Lake Dam When somebody tells us to go take a hike or jump in the lake, we don’t get offended. In fact, we get going. There’s just no shortage of places to visit in the Raleigh area to do either. One of our favorites happens to be right near our house…The Falls Lake Dam and […]

Patagonia (or Bust): Staying Safe

Surviving Patagonia: Staying Safe Means Staying Warm and Dry Once the logistical challenges of hiking in Patagonia are settled (which remains very far from being the case for Brian and Sylvia) one must turn to the actual physical challenges of the hike itself. Fortunately, altitude will not be one of these. On all three of our Peru expeditions, at least […]

On A Clear Day…Olympic National Park

A while back we did a post about our visit to Hurricane Ridge in Washington’s great Olympic National Park. Hurricane Ridge is one of the best viewpoints in the Pacific Northwest, for sure, with a tremendous panorama of the Olympic Range. But this was not Brian’s first visit to the area. He first visited Olympic National Park in 2007, during […]

Hawksbill Mountain Y’all!

Time for Fall Maneuvers!!!! October is finally upon us, our favorite time of the year for hiking! The end of summer means the end of heat, haze and humidity, the beginning of crisp, cool, clear fall days, and the arrival of fall colors. Well, at least it usually does. For the second straight year, fall has arrived late to NC.North […]

Paris: If We Had To Do It Over…

Paris: L’Essons L’Earned, or What We Learned NOT to Do from Four Days in the City of Light. **Becauseitzthere is typically a hiking and outdoor adventure blog. But from time to time we will feature other sorts of travel and leisure on these pages. In other words…fu fu travel. And it don’t get no more […]