About

A woman in a pink shirt and black skirt holding a camera stands in a film of water with salt formations poking out of the water with distant mountains
Anne photographing Lake Manly during a very rare flooding of Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California

A mere month after Anne’s fifth birthday, her family climbed into their 1989 Chevy station wagon and drove across the continent to places they had ever dreamed about, let alone seen: Badlands, Yellowstone, Craters of the Moon, Glacier, and up into the Canadian Rockies. They had so much fun… that they did it again five months later, visiting places like the Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Chaco Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, and the Guadalupe Mountains. And then, they hit the Utah parks two years later. And then, they went to the Pacific Northwest. And then –

– And then, after hiking across the American West for fifteen years, Anne decided to write about her travels. Today, she shares her hiking adventures here on the blog, hoping that you, too, can visit some of the very best views the US has to offer. While most of her hikes are west of the Mississippi River, she also occasionally takes her boots (and her bicycle) to places like the Blue Ridge Mountains, New England, and her native Finger Lakes Region of New York.

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