After five backpack trips, roughly 28 days total spend in the woods, and 57 nights of camping, here are at our last backcountry campsite of the summer. As Jerry Garcia

Having spent most of my life growing up on the East Coast, particularly in the southeast portion of Tennessee, I haven’t had that much exposure to snow, let alone glaciers.

The water was gin clear as it slithered over the painted rocks which ranged in color from blue to orange to red.  Water so cold and crisp that it could

Human beings are really big.  There isn’t a place on the planet we don’t touch and we’ve come up with technologies to circumnavigate just about any challenge Nature throws at

High-ho, high-ho, it’s off to hike we go…to ScapegoatPeak that is.  And high-ho it sure is!  As we embarked on the day’s adventure, I felt like I was living a

As a Tucsonan, snow is rare for me to see.  As an Arizonan, camping during a snow storm is even rarer.  In Upper Teepee Basin of Montana not only did

The wilderness, wild, untrammeled and untrampled.  If our government where to change its mind and to open the last few wilderness areas to motorized and mechanical travel, i.e. mountain bikes,

We’re in the Scapegoat Wilderness, just the 8 of us, backpacking for 8 days.  I swat at the multitude of flies that land on my legs.  I freeze in awe

I fight myself to not tell her how lovely she is.  She has dark almond eyes that take in the world with an observant urgency, and her hair shines like

As our caravan of freshly christened backcountry travelers sped down the highway, I couldn’t help but to notice how barren and void this landscape was to me. Rocky bluffs of