Saguaro National Park is broken up into two different sections, the east side (east of Tucson) and the west side (west of Tucson). It's about an hour drive between the two, so it made sense for us to treat them like separate parks and visit each on different days. Our plan was to drive down …
Continue reading Saguaro National Park (West) | Arizona | 02/16/20
Hello! Thank you so much for reading my blog. I've had a few requests to include maps in my posts and I'm testing this out. Please let me know what you think! Drop a comment below or contact me via email. I appreciate any and all feedback (about the maps or anything else!) and I …
Continue reading Joshua Tree National Park: Day Three | California | 02/15/20
After a fun morning at Amboy Crater and lunch on base at Twentynine Palms, Kyle and I headed back into Joshua Tree National Park for the afternoon. There were a number of trails on the north side of the park that I was interested in and we figured we'd just work our way through and get …
Continue reading Joshua Tree National Park: Day Two | California | 02/14/20
Amboy Crater | Mojave Trails National Monument Amboy, CA | 02/14/20 | 3.94 miles | 381' gain Eventually Kyle convinced me to leave my new favorite place (Joshua Tree National Park) and do a nearby hike he'd done 10 years prior while stationed at Twentynine Palms. We woke up early to make the 1.5 hour …
I'm finally caught up on all of my old hiking posts and I'm so excited to share our amazing California/Arizona adventure with all of you! We mostly focused on shorter hikes so that we could see as much as possible during our trip, so I've tried to combine a few hikes into each post instead …
Continue reading Joshua Tree National Park: Day One | California | 02/13/20
Gregory Canyon Loop | Chautauqua Park | Boulder OSMP Boulder, CO | 02/02/20| 5.15 miles | 1,558' gain After a couple unsuccessful summit attempts (see my previous two posts), I needed a hike that I knew I could finish. We were going through a heat wave on the Front Range so I knew the trails …
Pennsylvania Mountain (13,006') Attempt | CO Rank: 635/637 Mosquito Range | Pike National Forest | Fairplay, CO 02/01/20 | 1.9 miles | 370' gain | Class 1 Rats, another day foiled by weather. I've been having the worst luck lately and it's become extremely demoralizing. Here's hoping that things turn around this spring & summer! …
Continue reading Pennsylvania Mountain (13,006′) Attempt | Colorado | 02/01/20
