March 2 & 3 2024 Who would have thought that the first two days of our trek would be so dramatic! We left really early on Saturday morning at 4:45am. The Montana portion of the drive through
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2024-02-25 The Desert Trail trip is coming up fast…over 2,000 miles from the CA border with Mexico to Canada. I will be the trail angel this time and Yeti will hike. Yeti and I have been planning
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I did a van tour at Tippet Rise on Sunday, June 18th. The tour drives you around the park to 6 monumental sculptures. You can walk up close and around the artwork. The driver, Bill, is a sculptor and
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Arrow Leaf Balsamroot - North Cottonwood I’ve done some great wildflower hikes with my BWAG cohort (Lauran, Deb, Gina, Val) and with Yeti. Some of the great spots for the early wildflowers have
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Yeti and I went down to Utah so I could make another attempt to finish the Hayduke Trail in 2023. I was going to be hiking with Dave Greenwood this year. Our route would start at Hite, a section I
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Mike, Melanie, & Yeti Celebrating Finishing IBT Check out these essential hiker guide’s for treks on the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) and the Idaho Boundary Trail (IBT), a hiker created route
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Bunch of Apples - Maine Orchard 10/4/2022 – 10/12/2022
I embarked on my first trip east since spring of 2019, arriving in Boston on October 4th. Deb and I had a short one-day rest, walking around
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Resuming the Desert Trail Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Yeti and I are planning to resume our interrupted trip. I will hike the second half (Oregon/Washington) with Yeti providing support. He'll
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On the way to Carizzo Gorge At the Border in Jacumba Sunday, March 06, 2022 Princess drove us to the border in Jacumba. We got as close as you can to the big stupid "wall" and walked up to meet
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Caching Trip 2022-02-22 Off to California In spite of some recent health scares, we are off to California. Today, we left home in the dark in minus 5 degree weather hoping that the roads will be
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