Trip Report: Hamlin Peak
I was visiting Baxter State Park with my family. It’s an awesome park, one of the first places that I felt overwhelmed by the mystery and magic of nature while wandering its moss-strewn paths. Katahdin was also one of my…
Trip Report: Mount Carrigain
After I had finished Tom, Field, and Willey I decided I hadn’t had enough punishment. Frankly, I was way behind my friend Josh on the 4,000 footer list so I had to squeeze in as many summits as I could.…
Trip Report: Tom, Field, and Willey
After spending a wonderful day hiking up to Mitzpah Springs with my family, my wife had given me the ok for a day of Ryan time doing bigger/new mountains. I had my eyes on this trio for a while because…
Trip Report: Mount Waumbek
My wife and I took Calvin for a weekend in the White Mountains for his first real hike, up to Mitzpah Springs Hut. But there were a lot of extra hours in the day so I threw some peaks in…
Trip Report: Mount Cabot
My family was away for the week which made it easier for me to get away to do some hiking. +Josh Ain talked to me into doing Cabot with him, which is one of the few that we both need…
Trip Report: Moosilauke via Beaver Brook
I haven’t posted in a while mainly because I haven’t been hiking, but also because for a while I was avoiding writing about the Long Trail attempt I made back in the fall. I’ll get to that soon, but to…
LT 2014 Day 7: David Logan Shelter to Middlebury Gap
Now that I didn’t have a set schedule, I just let myself go. I slept in until 8:30 in the morning. Crazy, I know. I met a Middlebury orientation group in the morning on the trail. I don’t want to…
LT 2014 Day 6: Inn at Long Trail to David Logan Shelter
Day 6? What happened to Day 5? My leg was not in a normal type of pain when I got to the Inn and when I walked on it later that night I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to…
LT 2014 Day 4: Minerva Hinchey Shelter to Inn at Long Trail
Note: This is written as if I wrote it all the day of the hike. It was actually compiled from my memories and notes that I took on my phone as I hiked and written much later. Planned Schedule:4:30am –…
LT 2014 Day 3: Bromley Shelter to Minerva Hinchey Shelter
Note: This is written as if I wrote it all the day of the hike. It was actually compiled from my memories and notes that I took on my phone as I hiked and written much later. Planned Schedule: 5am…