May 6th may have been the slowest hike of my life. On May 5th, Matt had his rugby game. When it ended it took about 15 minutes for him to limp across the field to us, then slowly limp back to the car, where he held a cold beer on his knee for the ride …
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Living in Texas is hard. I love Houston, I love the food, I love the cost of living, I love Texas thunderstorms, but the location of Houston is hard. It's built on a swamp, and there are no mountains, no real forests, no skiing, none of the things I've grown up with in the Adirondacks, …
I've always wanted to visit a National Park in the snow, and surprisingly got the chance in October. Maybe not surprising since we were in Wyoming. One of my friends did us all the huge favor of getting married in Teton Village over Columbus Day Weekend which gave us the opportunity to spend a long …
In Jasper we did part of the Mina-Riley Lakes loop, and also discovered some really lovely breweries and bakeries in the town of Jasper. While Banff may have had some more epic hiking, Jasper definitely had more epic baked goods. The first set of pictures are from Mina-Riley Athabasca Falls was probably the most amazing …
I was planning on submitting these images to the Smithsonian Magazine annual photo contest, but I haven't been able to. The submit photo page has been giving me an error for the last 5 days from every computer and every network I've tried. I figured someone should get to see the work I put in …
This trail is an ass kicker. I loved it but I would not recommend it to everyone by a long shot. If you are used to hiking out west on beautiful clear trails with a maximum 10% grade, switchbacks and constant views and that's what you love, this is not the trail for you. If …
I'm not sure which style of stitching best captures the grandeur of the Grand Canyon. One shows the canyon walls and one better shows the Colorado River, so I've included them both. They were taken from about halfway down the canyon from Plateau Point.
Posts on the trip planning are still in the works, so as a small token in the meantime, here are more photos from our trip to Alaska. After Denali we took Alaska Railroad down to Seward for some quality ocean time. We did a sea kayaking excursion, a cruise around the bay and a fishing …
When we went to Alaska in 2015 neither Matt nor I were 25. This presents some difficulties with car rentals so we decided to take the train from Fairbanks to Denali, Denali to Seward, and Seward back to Anchorage. It also helps that I love trains. When I was a kid every spring break my …
Keeping in tradition from last year, I'm late on Earth Day. In 2016 I posted a collection of forests, this year I've selected wildflowers, cacti and yucca from across the country. If you can ID any of the flowers that I didn't I would really appreciate it, shoot me a message. Shout out to the …
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