On Sunday, I got back from a twelve day, eleven night driving, hiking, and backpacking trek through Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks. Over the course of the trip, we drove about 2,000 miles, backpacked 55 miles, spent ten straight nights in tents, and took maybe four showers. We ate enough granola bars and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Backpacking’
Montana, Wyoming, and Everywhere In Between
Posted in Travel, tagged Backpacking, Glacier National Park, Photos, Road Trip, Yellowstone National Park on September 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A Love Poem to Glacier National Park
Posted in Travel, tagged Backpacking, Glacier National Park, Photos, Poetry on September 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’re in the midst of our 11 day trek through Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks. Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to get photos off my camera until I get back to Seattle, and can’t organize my thoughts well enough yet for a proper blog post. So in lieu of cool photos or [...]
Reminiscing from the Roan Highlands
Posted in Travel, tagged Appalachian Trail, Backpacking, Mountains, Photos, Roan Highlands, Wildflowers on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Roan Highlands is a stretch of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, and it’s famous for having some of the beautiful mountain meadows in all of Appalachia. It’s also famous for its wildflowers, particularly the rhododendrons, which bloom in June… right when we happened to be visiting. So with that in mind, I enthusiastically packed [...]
Tidbit of the Day: Mountain Streams Are Still Cold in April
Posted in Travel, tagged Backpacking, Mountains, Photos on April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend a group of us headed down to Caesar Head State Park in South Carolina. It’s a beautiful area, with lots of creeks and streams that course and burble their way through lush, picturesque valleys and forests. And because it’s on the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, there are plenty of waterfalls as [...]
Back to Backpacking: A Trek Through the Highlands
Posted in Travel, tagged Appalachian Trail, Backpacking, Grayson Highlands, Mountains on March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After two months of not being able to do much backpacking thanks to lots of snow and ice, we were finally able to head out this weekend. The destination was Grayson Highlands National Park in Virginia, the temperature was chilly but bearable, and the weather was probably going to rain. Sounds like fun! The plan [...]
March Musings, on the Anniversary of an Adventure
Posted in Life, Travel, tagged Appalachian Trail, Backpacking on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
March 8th. Unless it’s your birthday or your anniversary, it’s the sort of day that’s likely to pass unmarked and unnoticed, just another Monday ticked off the calendar. The last time March 8th fell on a Monday was March 8th, 2004. It’s a day that holds special meaning for me because on that day, I [...]
Getting my Feet Wet
Posted in Travel, tagged Backpacking, Camping, Ocean, Photos on January 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Two weeks ago I dusted off my backpacking gear, which has sat unused for over a year, and went backpacking on Shackleford Banks, a little island on the southern edge of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It’s only about nine miles long by half a mile wide (if that), but it’s a cool little island. Among [...]
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