Well, I may not be much into hiking long distances to waterfalls, but when it comes to doing it, it might as well be a waterfall worth visiting. And better yet, the view along the trail should be worth looking…
The Lakeside Trail around the Green River Lakes
We arrived at the Green River Lakes a bit late to take a hike. Yet I really wanted to do a circuit around the Lower Green River Lake. Squaretop, so I’d seen in the pictures, was so magnificent. And the…
Visiting the Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia
A visit to the historic area of Philadelphia, PA just wouldn’t be complete without seeing the Liberty Bell (at least once in your life, anyway). So even though the one person in our group who’d seen it said it wasn’t…
Medicine Bow Aircraft Arrow – So Photogenic!
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned I’d soon post about a much more exciting aircraft arrow than the one on Pilot Hill. Well, I got sort of carried away with fall posts, but here’s the rest of the story –…
Autumn in Willowwood Arboretum
A few weeks ago, we had the fun of visiting an arboretum just outside of Chester, New Jersey. We’d visited Willowwood Arboretum once before – in the late spring – so we were all looking forward to seeing if it…
Pilot Hill Aircraft Arrow in Wyoming
In the early days of Aviation, there wasn’t radar, radios were finicky, aerial photography didn’t exist, and pilots had little choice but to know landmarks as best as they could from the sky. Thus, when transcontinental flight began to “take…
Visiting the US Mint in Philadelphia
Ever since I visited the Bureau of Engraving in Washington, DC when I was 9 years old, I’ve wanted to visit the US Mint in Philadelphia. But it’s never quite worked. No one really wanted to take a trip to…
Day Hiking the Cirque of Towers Overlook
It’s a total of 8.3 miles to the Cirque of Towers Overlook in Jackass Pass, above Big Sandy Lake in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. That’s way too long to plan a dayhike for me. Way too long. But…
Dayhiking North Lake in the Wind Rivers
North Lake, in Jackass Pass, high above Big Sandy Lake and well below the Cirque of Towers in the Wind Rivers of Wyoming, is a rugged mountain view junkie’s dream. Not only does it boast quite a large lake in…
Day Hiking Big Sandy Lake in the Wind Rivers
It’s a long trail to Big Sandy Lake. Five whole miles, in fact. But the trail is more or less flat, and it really isn’t that far. (At least in my mind. My feet said otherwise at the end of…