50 Days, 500 Miles, and 5 States When I Turn 50

Those four miles were some of the most stressful of my life. At the end I was shaking, sweating and cursing. And I hadn't even started h...

  Heliotrope Ridge is hike #1 in "100 Classic Hikes in Washington." I've had that book for a dozen years at least. When I firs...

  Heidi was amped to hike. As I mentioned in my last post , she did not go with us on our Bowman-Kintla loop because of injury. She had trai...

I'm a hiking cheater. When I did my 500 miles on the Appalachian Trail I counted a few miles that were not exactly on trail...because I ...

  Adam is the ninth person I've gotten to introduce backpacking to. How lucky am I, that I get to help in giving someone this experience...