It’s been a long, strange, winter and I’m just now getting an opportunity to head to OBX for a little camping so I dusted off the Aliner, hitched her up, and headed for Highway 12. The forecast was perfect, high in the 80’s – low in the mid-60’s. I wasn’t quite up to going all […]
Hiking
Yosemite National Park
After returning from Moab, I was still in a traveling mood and Yosemite National Park was still high on my list of “must see” destinations. I found pretty cheap flight and a hotel outside the southern entrance in Oakhurst and was on my way. There’s not much I can say about Yosemite that hasn’t already […]
Mountain Biking in Moab
What a slacker I’ve been! Although the injury to my Achilles last August really put a damper on my activities, I don’t think I had to go quite this deep into hibernation. Between the injury, work, and a strange and seemingly long winter, it took something major to get me kick-started this year. What about […]
Hiking Old Rag in Shenandoah, NP
I’d been wanting to get up to Shenandoah National Park and check out the classic hike to the summit of “Old Rag” for quite a while so when the weekend opened up, I hitched up the camper, picked up a pal, and hit the road Friday afternoon. We found a little campground that was open […]
2010 and Beyond…
It looks like 2010 is shaping up to be a pretty active year for me. If things work out in the next few weeks, I’ll be heading out to Durango, Colorado for a little alpine training with Southwest Adventure Guides in the San Juan Mountains in late February or early March. Although I haven’t worked […]