Leading Up to the Trip For this trip, we once again flew to Salt Lake City Utah, and then drove a rental car to a tourist trap of a town called West Yellowstone. After a long day of travel, we checked into our cheap motel, had dinner at a joint called the Slippery Otter, and …
In late March of 2021, my Dad and I decided to take on a trek through the Great Smoky Mountains. We spent 5 days and 4 nights hiking through the park and hiked about 50 miles in total. This is the most distance we have ever covered in a single trip! Leading Up to the …
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This was our first big backpacking trip. We spent 4 days and 3 nights completing this 27 mile loop and traversing 4 mountain passes each at about 12,500 feet of elevation. This was our first time ever even seeing Mountains and the views absolutely blew us away. Most of this trip occurred over 10,000 feet …
Believe it or not the Everglades National Park actually extends all the way out into the ocean and includes an area referred to as the 10,000 islands. In the summer of 2014 we loaded up 2 canoes with our backpacking gear and launched from Everglades City. We first had to cross the Chokoloskee Bay and …
This was the trip where things went wrong for us! What is confusing about the Grand Canyon is that the rim of the Canyon is about 6000 feet higher than the bottom of the canyon and this constitutes a significant temperature change. If you google Grand Canyon weather right now, you likely will find moderate …
Coming off of the trying Grand Canyon expedition from the previous year, our 2017 trip to Long’s Peak was very much about redemption for us. My Dad faced heavy criticism from both extended and immediate family in the aftermath of the Grand Canyon. Additionally, my brother, sister, and I were left shaken and trepidatious about …
Glacier National Park is located in Northwest Montana and you can actually take the Amtrak train all the way from Union station in Chicago to East Glacier Village which sits right outside of Glacier National Park. It’s a quick and easy 33 hour train ride! Ha! One hilarious moment ensued shortly after my Mom dropped …
The purpose of our trip to the Wind River Range was to summit a mountain called Gannet Peak. At 13,810 feet, Gannett Peak is the tallest mountain in the state of Wyoming. We had climbed tall mountains before such as Long’s Peak, but this mountain was on another level. Gannett is in a very remote …
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