Hiking to Azure Mountain Fire Tower | Potsdam, NY | August 2024 Today was a Saturday, and knowing how busy it can be in the Adirondacks on a summer weekend, we set our sights on a hike in a more remote area that we hadn’t visited before. From where we were in Tupper Lake, it…
This is the story of our weekend trip for the first weekend in April. (April 4-6, 2014) The main purpose for this weekend road trip was to attend the letterboxing event, “East comes West to Arizona” on Sunday the 6th, named in honor of special guests from Connecticut. We along with our friends decided to…
Road Trip with Jess’ Family | Weekend on the Olympic Peninsula | Hiking the Klahhane Ridge Trail to Lake Angeles | June 2021 On Saturday morning, one week after we had departed from Omaha, we packed up the car and finished cleaning our Tacoma rental house before hitting the road. We had another rental house…
Peaks of Otter Recreation Area | Hiking Sharp Top and Flat Top Mountains | Falling Waters Waterfall | Bedford, VA | August 2023 We arrived at the Peaks of Otter campground near the Blue Ridge Parkway around four in the afternoon, and after setting up the van, Jessica allowed me to go climb up the…
Moving to Hawaii • Hiking White Butte, North Dakota’s High Point • September 8, 2017 Jess: We were up before the sun this morning, and we packed up camp and got on the road quickly. Our goal for the day was to hike White Butte, the highest point in North Dakota, which was about 3 hours away…
Cold Climbing in Cat Creek, Day 1 • Hiking Overlook Mountain • January 6, 2017 Last week, Curtis had a 4-day weekend! Never ones to pass up an opportunity to travel even a short distance, we had been toying with several ambitious trips. Boston, Philadelphia, even NYC. I don’t know why we wanted a city so much,…