travel light, wake early, walk far
Massanutten PC small group 13 members + Whiskey Fairy/Evan adding you all to the group. Disappearing trip report message time set to never. Team- establishing a principals hikers group for coordination of trip report memories and feats. I was deputized by U-Turn/Michael to pull together a statement of backpacking conclusions. 13 backpackers set out on... Continue Reading →
2025 upon us, we ventured out on January 2nd to Shenandoah (SNP) for two nights of backpacking to start hiking in the new year and take in the hunter-free woods on this, the last week of rifle season in Virginia for every public forest in the state not federally protected like this national park. There... Continue Reading →
Photo: Logan. We love our traditions around here. One week after DC UL’s annual Four State Challenge, we launched our third post-presidential election week escape from DC to the 75-mile Quehanna Trail in north-central Pennsylvania. In 2016, I vividly remembered our shell-shocked faces after a surprisingly tumultuous week as we gathered at the trailhead on that... Continue Reading →
I. "I can't wait to read the trip report," Karan said with a sly grin. It was the Wednesday before the trip. We had met up for a goodbye dinner. He couldn't join us on the trip. But if he didn't have family plans would he have ventured out in July on an infamous Mid... Continue Reading →
When we pick a weekend for a backpacking trip, we circle a date and hope for the best. For a December trip, that hope is for enough snow to make things gorgeous but not so much that we fear road conditions and the necessitation of snow shoes (unless of course we're planning a deep snow... Continue Reading →
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