My eyes couldn’t believe what they were seeing! Water flowed steadily down this small creek that seemingly bled out of the desert floor. After hiking for hours with little to no water to be seen, this tiny stream was a welcomed sight. A Homecoming Vacation Backpacking is something that my wife and I loved to […]
My heart sank as I looked up the trail. Snow covered the majority of the dirt that I had been walking on for hours. And now that the sun was getting low in the sky and I still didn’t have a campsite, life was beginning to look pretty terrible at the moment. Gearing Up for […]
“What did we get ourselves into?” I thought as I scrambled up and over what felt like the 100th boulder. “What if one of us falls? What if we never get to our campsite and we have to turn around? What if we just aren’t cut out for backpacking?” A few hours earlier, my wife […]
One of the best ways to enjoy the outdoors is through backpacking. There’s really nothing quite more satisfying than getting camp set up, looking around, and not seeing another soul because of how far out you hiked! But those miles can get overwhelming when your pack is heavier than it needs to be. Heavy packs […]
