travel light, wake early, walk far
On August 16, 1985 Cristin Milioti was born to an Olive-Garden-variety Italian-American family in a quiet suburb of Philadelphia. After dropping out of NYU to pursue acting full-time, Cristin Milioti appeared on popular TV shows such as 30 Rock and The Sopranos. On January 26, 2020 she appeared at the Sundance Film Festival to attend... Continue Reading →
DCUL's latest (maybe first?) encounter with the Thunder Swamp Trail in the Poconos can best be understood as a series of negatives. It's not a particularly pretty trail. There doesn't seem to be any old-growth forests, despite the proximity to so many others. You can sort of get a sense that there are swamps nearby,... Continue Reading →
Danielle and I decided that her introduction to DCUL should feature and all-time classic: the Massanutten Valley. Now, there are a number of routes that incorporate bits and pieces of the 73-mile ridge-line trail that circumscribes the valley. We certainly didn't have the time for the full-Massanutten. Even the half-assanutten would have been difficult to... Continue Reading →
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers. --- Pocahontas, conceivably A select seven DCULers started off the new year with a gorgeous hike outside of the Cranberry Wilderness of the Monongohela National Forest. Alex, Kathryn, David O., Brian H., Karan, Stan, and Dan arrived at Vienna on Friday night along with two other DCUL... Continue Reading →
Like the DCUL low-mileage trip to Elliott Knob led by Cassie and Erik back in March 2019, this weekend’s hike turned out to be more demanding than the typical “LM.” No matter how many times our group scoured the details of Cassie and Erik’s trip report, nor how many weather advisory alert notifications we checked... Continue Reading →
DC UL Backpacking 