I started putting together my hike blog this morning (it's only just 7:05 am locally now ( Read more... )

I have my dad's five-minute-sunburn skin. I've borrowed my brother's Tilley hate. I've borrowed my sister's hiking shoes. Now all I need to do is borrow my mother's khakis and I'll be an Indiana Jones lookalike composite of my family ( Read more... )

Hi! ::waves::
Okay, it's been hot here. I mean HOT. My apartment peaked on a two-day 42°C (107.6 ºF) that nearly killed me. It was the first random 42 that ever made me feel like ( this )

This hike thing is really starting to sound like a miraculously wonderful idea ( Read more... )

I’m falling into the obsessive aspect of my annual cycle, and this time ‘round it’s kind of cool. Intense, sexy, dangerous…

I’m caught, trapped, bound in this wonderful discovery.

Looking at the pictures just isn’t enough any more, you know? Browsing image after image, pulse pounding, eyes glazing, I want what I cannot have. This is one package I’d ( Read more... )