For a few years when I was a kid my family was big into canoe camping. Well, all camping actually, but we’d just bought a canoe, so: canoe camping. There aren’t a whole lot of places to go around my neck of the Rockies since a lot of rivers have big whitewater and there aren’t [...]
Dear God I love Moab. So much. It’s the ultimate candy store for outdoorsy types, treehugger and redneck alike. Every time I go to Moab I find amazing new things, and this time was no exception. I’d been four times before, first discovering Arches, Canyonlands and the Slickrock practice loop and as a kid. Then [...]
Joshua Tree blew me away. Such a wild landscape! The world of Dr Seuss embodied in living color! So trippy. I got to J-Tree late and camped outside the park, entering on the South side early the next day. The southern part of the park is just rolling hills which made me wonder about the [...]
Rest day! Which means it was still action packed, but just not as physically exerting. The same night I came down from Boundary Peak (enjoying views Owens Valley, the deepest in the US with peaks rising 10,000′ on either side) I searched out Keough Hot Springs. I’d read that even though it’s a developed hot [...]
