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Patreon October-November Featured Hikes – Zone 5 (Great Plains) & Zone 6 (Great Lakes States)
Patreon October-November Featured Hikes – Zone 3 (Southwest) & Zone 4 (Rocky Mountain States)
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The Difference Between Surrender and Sacrifice
Surrender and sacrifice, while often used in the same context in the church today, are not the same thing. Far from it. Surrender is trading one ruler for another. Sacrifice is a voluntary offering of something one owns to someone…

Shafer Canyon Overlook
The very first “hike” (such as it is) you’ll drive past in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park is the Shafer Canyon Overlook. It’s a quick walk down to the edge of the canyon, where you…
Patreon October-November Featured Hikes – Zone 1 (Pacific Northwest) & Zone 2 (Northern Southwest)
Zone 1 Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington) Washington Third Beach to Strawberry Point Up to 11.7 miles out & back; 325ft. vertical change; Moderately Strenuous Sea stacks, beach walk, rain forest, tide pools; Olympic National Park Third Beach to Strawberry Point…

Logistics for Hiking the South Kaibab Trail
They say not to hike the South Kaibab Trail rim to river to rim in a day. And having done it, I’d say they’re wise to advise against it. But since some of us are in excellent physical condition, very…

Self-Righteousness = Fear of Being Wrong
There are two types of people I’ve met who are terrified of doing something wrong. First, those who know the repercussions of their mistake and don’t want to face the consequences. Second, those with an undercover or overt sense of…

McNeil Point and Up Cathedral Ridge
Some of you may remember when I tried to get to McNeil Point in Mount Hood National Forest back in 2016 via the Mazama Trail. That didn’t work out very well, as the clouds socked in the entire meadow and…

Sneak Peek: The Wasatch and the Uintas!
Yesterday’s post took us through my adventures on the Beartooth Highway and in the Wind River Range in Wyoming. It was a fantastic part of the trip, but we still had a week and a half until we needed to…

Sneak Peek: The Beartooths and the Winds!
Well, I just got back from another cross-continent trip! This one was cooked up by a few of my fellow adventurers. “Let’s go to the Wind River Range!” they said (if in not so many words). “We haven’t been in…







