Within the 14 days we spent in California, the 3 days around Big Sur National Park had to be my favorite. The first day we backpacked 3 miles up the coastal mountains to spend a night in the mountains. It was really something to start at sea level, hike through the clouds and end [...]
Throughout my time in Philadelphia in 2008-2010
Last summer, July 2009, my brother Shawn and I hiked the Long Trail in Vermont. The trail runs 272 miles along the Green Mountain Range from the Massachusetts/ Vermont border to the Canadian border. We averaged between 8 to 12 miles a day, our longest day being 17 miles over Camel’s Hump. We stopped in [...]