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Climbing Acatenango On Your Own

Climbing Acatenango On Your Own: Everything You Need to Know

Travel With Me! Discover trips to Iceland, Patagonia, and Thailand in 2024 & 2025. Explore here Climbing Acatenango On Your Own: Everything You Need to Know January 14, 2024   The view of Volcan de Fuego from Acatenango was one…

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Backpacking Checklist: Complete Packing Guide for Overnight Backpacking Trips

Backpacking Checklist: Complete Packing Guide Overnight Backpacking Trips March 11, 2022 Backpacking Checklist: Complete Packing Guide Overnight Backpacking Trips When my parents brought my backpacking on Lake Michigan as a kid and I would fill my tiny backpack until the…

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Wyoming Hiking: Best Hikes in Wyoming in 2022

Wyoming Hiking: Best Hikes in Wyoming in 2022 January 25, 2020 Narrowing down the best hikes in Wyoming was tough. A true Wyoming hiking list could easily include 40+ trails and places to get out and explore. However, I tried…

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Everything to Know Before Climbing Mount Rainier – Disappointment Cleaver Route

Travel With Me! Discover trips to Iceland, Patagonia, and Thailand in 2024 & 2025. Explore here Everything to Know Before Climbing Mount Rainier – Disappointment Cleaver Route July 21, 2021 **Please note: this is an outline for climbing Mount Rainier…

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How to Pack for Backpacking: Best Tips for First-Time Backpackers

How to Pack For a Backpacking Trip: Best Tips for First-Time Backpackers June 22, 2021  My mom was a 5th-grade teacher and at the end of every school year, she’d bring her students on a weekend-long backpacking trip along the…

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Granite Peak: Everything to Know About Climbing Montana’s Tallest Mountain

Granite Peak: Everything to Know About Climbing Montana’s Tallest Mountain November 23, 2020 Distance: 28 Miles Elevation: 12,808 Feet / 4,500ft Elevation Gain Route: Southwest Ramp/Couloir The pinkish-orange sunrise lit the valley and lakes below as we hobbled over steep…

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What to Wear Hiking? The Best Affordable Hiking Gear for Every Season

What to Wear Hiking: The Best Affordable Hiking Gear for Every Season June 25, 2020 I’m very straightforward when it comes to outdoor gear. I don’t spend hundreds of dollars on brand name equipment from expensive apparel companies. I buy…

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Longs Peak Hike: What to Expect When Climbing Colorado’s “Deadliest” Mountain

Longs Peak Hike: What to Expect When Climbing Colorado’s “Deadliest” Mountain June 15, 2020  In terms of statistics, Longs Peak is only 14th on the list of hardest 14ers to climb in Colorado. There is no class 5 climbing and…

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Three Things to Know Before Hiking Old Man of Storr

Three Things to Know Before Hiking Old Man of Storr January 25, 2020 The buzzing of my 4:00am alarm still rang in my head as we loaded the car and began the three-hour journey from Fort William to Isle of…

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What to Expect When Hiking Mt. Whitney’s Mountaineers Route

What to Expect When Hiking Mt Whitney’s Mountaineers Route July 20, 2019 Mountaineers Route July 2019 – photo by Josh Super What to Expect When Hiking Mt Whitney’s Mountaineers Route It was 2:30 am on July 13th, 2019, when I…

A Solo Hike Up New Zealand’s Gertrude Saddle

A Solo Hike Up New Zealand’s Gertrude Saddle   Updated: March 31, 2020 Around dawn, I peeked my head out from the thin blanket I had spread across myself in the backseat of my compact rental car. The night had…

Want to Climb a Mountain? Six Easy Peaks to Climb in North America

Travel With Me! Discover trips to Iceland, Patagonia, and Thailand in 2024 & 2025. Explore here Want to Climb a Mountain? Six Easy Mountains to Climb in The United States Updated: May 1, 2022 There are thousands of mountains around…

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Where Can I Camp For Free in The United States?

Where Can I Camp For Free in The United States? 2022 Edition WHERE TO CAMP FOR FREE IN THE UNITED STATES 2022 Free camping is a major win for many reasons. First, it’s free. Second, most of the time you…

Four Incredible North Carolina Mountain Secrets

Best Places to Visit in The North Carolina Mountains     When you think of America’s Southeast, the word “adventure” may not be one of the first words to come to mind. But out of the nearly 50 states I’ve…

The Most Scenic Hikes in the United States

Most Scenic Hikes in The United States (2022 Edition) Updated: November 10, 2021 Most Scenic Hikes in The United States for 2022 I originally wrote this article in 2018 when I thought I had enough hiking experience to provide a…

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The Epic Five: Road Trip Utah’s National Parks

The Epic Five: Road Trip Utah National Parks Guide 2021 Updated: June 23, 2021 Utah National Parks: Sunrise in Arches National Park   Everything to Know About the Five Utah National Parks  Utah is the state that holds the third…

Mount Olympus: A Trek up Greece’s Highest Mountain

MOUNT OLYMPUS: A TREK UP GREECE’S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN   And I peeked over the edge, only to realize that a thousand-foot cliff waited for me on the other side. I was roughly 400 vertical feet from the summit of Mount…

The Michigan Bucket List

The Michigan Bucket List  November 15, 2014   THE ORIGINAL MICHIGAN BUCKET LIST | AS Shared Over 200,000 Times on Facebook Thank you for supporting!  Michigan is perhaps the most underrated state in the United States. For those that live…

An Amateurs Guide to Hiking the Half Dome

An Amateurs Guide to Hiking The Half Dome The iconic symbol of the Half Dome dominated the photo, dwarfing the surrounding peaks. From the moment I saw it, my Midwest heart yearned to discover everything about the iconic granite face.…

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