What started out as a whim turned out to be one of my most enjoyable overnight backpacking trips to date. This area has the most high-quality camping sites – in high quantity, mind you – that I have ever seen....
Read more3 years after my first overnight in Dolly Sods, I made it back out to the Wilderness to do it right. This time, I meant to do a 3-day loop starting from Bear Rocks Trail, making it to Lions Head...
Read moreThe trek to Los Nevados started here. Each day was unique, but this kick-started the adventure. Details below, including GPS data + summary video at the bottom! Click Here to Jump to Day 2Click Here to Jump to Day 3...
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Follow-up to my previous article/video, I’ve had the Salomon Quest 4D GTX boots for about 3 years now. I’ve used these, pretty much exclusively, for day-hikes and multi-day backpacking trips. I wore them on my trip to Dolly Sods, where Read more…
On Day 3, we ditched our packs in the morning to check out the Paramo Ecosystem, before heading back to the cabin for lunch. We would ultimately take our gear with us down the mountain as we headed back to Read more…
The trek continued here, where we would enter Los Nevados National Park. It was the most exciting day of the trek. Click Here to Jump to Day 1Click Here to Jump to Day 3 The Trek from La Pastora to Read more…
The Black Mountain Crest Trail, known colloquially as “the tougher way up Mount Mitchell,” is a strenuous but scenic trek that takes you through a forest of gushing waters before setting you on an endless stairmaster up to the heavens. Read more…
This is the sign at the end of the B&A Trail, in Arnold, MD.
In this video, I show you how I used Python to create the charts in my article on Python. From start to finish, here is what I did: Download hike recordings from Garmin Connect Launch a Jupyter Notebook Start coding Read more…
During my recent trek in Colombia, my GPS watch battery died. I tried using my phone to track my voyage through the jungle and into the mountains, but honestly, until now I thought this was simply an unsuccessful attempt to Read more…