Hiking Chasm Falls
With permission to play hooky on a Wednesday, we loaded up spikes and snowshoes and headed to the Park. Surprisingly enough, despite the…
Read MoreWith permission to play hooky on a Wednesday, we loaded up spikes and snowshoes and headed to the Park. Surprisingly enough, despite the…
Read MoreMaking use of yet another day of reduced crowds in Rocky Mountain National Park. Normally the Longs Peak trailhead parking lot is completely…
Read MoreSince we love nontraditional holidays – why not a hike in the Park? We figured that crowds would be low, so we would…
Read MoreOff-season means low crowds, might as well bang out some of the hikes you just can’t get to in the summer without hordes…
Read MoreAlthough we’ve already done the first section of the Cow Creek Trail, we haven’t done the circuit up to Balanced Rock. While the…
Read MoreThe very nice thing about Rocky Mountain National Park being mostly closed – fewer tourists! Slowly as bits of the Park have reopened,…
Read MoreFire is like radiation or gossip. It can be used for good, it can be used for bad, but no matter what –…
Read MoreWhen you’re in Bavaria, you simply must take cow photos! Why? Because they’re there! And they’re very photogenic. And they’re curious. And the…
Read MoreEinodsbach is listed as "the charming little village at the end of the road", so of course we had to go there! A…
Read MoreAnother Oberstdorf must-do is hiking up the Breitachklamm. A deep gorge that starts flat enough, and quickly becomes tall and narrow. With the…
Read MoreGoing up the Feldhorn is something all visitors do. The top of the mountain is the dividing line between Germany and Austria, and…
Read MoreFilled with small waterfalls, rapids, and erosion potholes, the Vintgar Gorge is a 1600m long spectacle of nature. With gloomy skies, we loaded…
Read MoreWhile we technically could have taken the cable car to the top and checked the Czechia high point off the list, why not…
Read MoreWith so much information on the family pre-climb page, I’ll just let the photos here do the talking. Here are some extra photos…
Read MoreExtra photos! Such an amazing climb that I can’t write it all down. Hopefully this set captures the little things – the huts…
Read MoreOne of the big things about getting out of Zurich was finding some green places to hike. Google never disppoints, and the Taubenlochschlucht…
Read MoreAltitude, Check. Snow, Check. Safety Cables, … 5:54 AM This was supposed to be a Via Ferrata with steel cabling in most of…
Read MoreWhat started as a random hike pulled from Wikiloc turned out to be a beautiful late spring day. 67 degrees and sunny is…
Read MoreAnother excellent crowd-sourced hike from Wikiloc! Websites like Alltrails, Komoot, and Wikiloc are amazing resources for those of us who want to get…
Read MoreIf you’re going to do a 25.2 mile hike, why not make it a full marathon? A huge part of training for my…
Read MoreA hike I dug up on Wikiloc, it looked interesting due to the old castle ruins and some elevation. 12.4 miles and 2,300…
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