June 19th-21st, 2018        Sam and I needed a training trip to get ready for our wild west road trip of 2018, coming soon. We had 3 days, so I figured we should hit up the Manistee River Trail and packraft back down the Manistee. It ended up being completely worth the 6 […]

     April 10-13, 2018      This trip was to be a training trip, stretching my backpacking and packrafting capabilities in a new-to-me, beautiful area. 53 miles of hiking and 38 miles of packrafting down the beautiful Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in Kentucky and Tennessee. Just 4 full days and I […]

 March 23-25, 2018      Mark’s car was wrecked. It had just been parked on the street, minding it’s own business, when someone drove right into it. No injuries, but now Mark had to sit out this trip in order to deal with the aftermath. Sorry, Mark.      Rookie spent most of the drive […]

October 19-22, 2017      I’ve been backpacking in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore area twice before, both times in February. But I’d never been there in more temperate weather. My wife and I had to cancel a planned traverse a couple years ago, when I tore my meniscus fighting a fire just the day […]

May 26-28, 2017 A decade of marriage is a great reason to spend a couple weeks touring the islands of our youngest state. And having a wife who enjoys spending time outside with me is a great reason to choose the most famous backpacking trail on the island of Kauai, the Kalalau trail.     […]