Catalina State Park
Brown Mountain Loop Trail | Tucson Mountain Park | Hiking Antelope Peak | Arizona Trail | December 2023 Besides spending lots of time with friends around Tucson, we wanted to take some of our time in Arizona to visit more places we had never been, and spend time away from the city. As much as…
Touring Colossal Cave Mountain Park / November 1, 2013 Welcome to Colossal Cave Mountain Park! This was our 3rd visit to the area, but it was the first time I have taken pictures to share. The first time, we came just to find some letterboxes in the park. The second was when Curtis’ dad came…
Walking the Papio Trail | 36th to 72nd Street | Omaha, NE | March 2021 As the temperature is warming up and summer is quickly approaching, we are getting more serious about training and preparing for our hiking plans this year. At home, that looks like dehydrating fruit and preparing other healthy and space-efficient trail…
Visiting Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | January 2023 Just South of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River rises the imposing mass that is known as Lookout Mountain. This mountain (which is actually more a plateau) was the centerpiece of all of our day trips while staying in Chattanooga, so it’s worth talking about at…
It’s beginning to *feel* a lot like Christmas! Here in Arizona, you can’t go by looks, because it always looks the same in the desert. So I guess you could say it always looks like Christmas… 😉 Anyway, it is becoming quite chilly down here. It’s only 60 degrees right now, and I’m sitting here…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | North Rim to Enterprise, UT | Kaibab National Forest | Pipe Springs National Monument | October 2022 Our night on the Kaibab Plateau was not only our highest in elevation, but the coldest overall, with nighttime temperatures reaching below freezing, and when we woke up there was a veneer of frost…