So we’re going to try something a little different on the blog. It won’t take the place of the weekly posts about hiking to some of America’s best views (and other interesting and inexpensive attractions). Those will still be coming…
Table Mountain, on the “non-tourist” west side of Grand Teton National Park, has got to be one of our favorite views ever – and I mean that seriously. If you interviewed everyone in the group, they’d probably list that single…
I absolutely love North Cascades National Park when the weather is nice. It’s filled with that wild wilderness that makes you feel like you’ve really left it all behind, not to mention peak upon peak and tranquil valley after alpine…
So I just spent a week and a half at peaceful Holden Beach, North Carolina… We rented a house (review coming soon!), rode bikes, walked the beach
Visiting the Medicine Bow Museum in Medicine Bow, WY was a bit of an accident. We hadn’t planned to be in the area at all, but then figured we’d break up the trip by visiting the aircraft arrow in Medicine…
If I had to pick one desert state to say was my favorite, Utah would almost certainly win. I love the rock formations, the arches, the canyons, the scrubby desert; it’s all lovely in a very rustic sort of way. …
Well, it’s that time of year again: time for the Big Birthday Bike Ride. A few weekends ago, we loaded up all the bikes, drove down to the far southeast end of the Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern Trail (at Pannell…
A few months ago, I posted about finding fossils in Upper Darby Canyon on the west side of the Tetons. Well, my goal that day wasn’t fossils; in fact, I didn’t even know they existed until they appeared in boulders…
This is a guest post from one of my group members. She’s young, fun-loving, and is apt to tell you that she spent her first 3 birthdays hiking the wildernesses of the US, so she’d be just as happy to…
I have to admit, I like ferries. I especially like ferries when they make the drive shorter, save gas money (even with the cost of riding the ferry), and / or are an event unto themselves (like taking the Staten…