You’ll find stories and trip details about hiking, off roading, snowboarding, mountain biking, travel, and camping in the trail head.
New Jersey’s highlands are packed with great hikes of all difficulty levels. Today, Mojo (my Australian Cattle dog) and I completed a hike on Point Mountain in Warren County, a new spot for both of us. The 3 mile trek covered an elevation gain and drop of about 1000ft and took about an hour and a half to cover. Continue reading
As promised, the video proof that I actually remembered a few things since the last time I was on a snowboard.
Two years ago I convinced myself that I would get back into snowboarding. I got my board sharpened and waxed, dug out my goggles and helmet, but never made it out. With the same goal this season, and as part of my 30 for 30 list; I spent a day on the snow, with my board. Continue reading
I’ll admit it; I often get carried away. I’ll get an idea in my head and start a cycle of researching, list making, budgeting, day dreaming, and planning; then reality kicks in and I’m usually left frustrated, and disappointed. My wife bought me a subscription to Overland Journal for my birthday last fall – and now a few issues in; I want to build an overland rig and drive around the world.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my 2009 trip to Alaska recently. That trip involved a lot of firsts. In addition to being my first time traveling solo, my first time sleeping in a hostel, my first time kayaking in a glacier lake, and my first time west of the state of Kansas; my trip to Alaska was the first time, and currently the only time, that I had the opportunity to summit a mountain. On my final full day in Juneau, my sister and I climbed more than 3,000 feet to the peak of Mount Bradley Jumbo.
I always liked the idea of traveling the world…
but never had the motivation to really look into how a person would go about doing such a thing. It seemed cool to say: I’d like to backpack through a foreign country – yet I hadn’t bought a pack, or even as much as a travel guide. The opportunity to visit Alaska fell in my lap; and without any research, or much planning – I opened a new chapter in my life, and was bitten by the proverbial ‘travel bug.’
yes, there are rain forests in Alaska – and yes, I left a bit thinner :)
I’m a big fan of the HowStuffWorks: ‘Stuff You Should Know’ Podcast. My sister and her boyfriend had become fans of the geeked out show while driving their 1981 diesel Volkswagen Rabbit from New Jersey to Bolivia last summer…
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