Yesterday, we did a lovely 11 mile hike in the Mount Rainier National Park. It’d been a long time since I’d been in that part of Washington and my first time hiking in the area and it provided some much needed mountain therapy since I’m missing my hiking adventures in Switzerland. It was a 2 …
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This August, I was fortunate enough to spend a week bumming around Switzerland! I took a week’s vacation while abroad for work and, after years of prodding from my brother-in-law, decided Switzerland would be the perfect spot for my trip! This ended up being a stupidly long post, so I’m including links to the different …
This last weekend, we did a quick backpacking trip in Yellowstone National Park around Mallard Lake. The north entrance of Yellowstone is a quick hour and a half drive from Bozeman, making it ideal for a weekend trip! We have the America the Beautiful pass ($80 for one year), which waived our $35 entrance fee, …
This week I’m hanging out in Bozeman, Montana and started the trip off with a really hard hike to Blackmore Peak. We had the hike pitched to us as a moderately difficult 10 mile hike with some elevation and ended up recording 16 miles on the fitbit with 3700 ft of elevation gain. The trailhead …
For 4th of July, I went up to Dirty Harry’s Peak in the Cascades with a few friends after it was suggested to be less crowded than some other more popular hikes around the Seattle area. I’d done it a couple months back and forgotten how hard it was. It’s a 9.2 mile round trip …
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