Part 1 Yesterday did not go as planned. Instead of driving 1 and a half hour hours and hiking Yosemite falls. we drove 6 hours. That was yesterday. part 2 Today we hiked 12 miles. The hike we did was Panorama Point.We started downhill and it felt GOOD and it was in shade. Then we […]

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Again it’s been a couple days since I’ve written, so I’ll do my best to cover our time in Yosemite now. After leaving Great Basin we drive across the state of Nevada to Lee Vining, CA. We’d been through the town several times before including a dinner stop there in 2010 but this was our […]

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Video blogs we recorded while backpacking at Great Basin NP.

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We’re in San Francisco at our first Kimpton stop, which means in addition a hot shower, comfy bed, and wine hour we have reliable strong wifi! Here are the first of several video blogs we recorded on nights that were too late or remote to write.

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We backpacked for the first time. Yep! And, we survived! I am going to give some highs of the weekend. Saturday – The parade: It was part of the Snake Valley Festival a protest to save the water and had 10 floats and had maybe 20? people watching it. The campsite: It was overlooking Pyramid […]

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After three days in Great Basin NP we’re finally on the road again. We’re currently somewhere in the middle of Nevada on our way to Lee Vining, CA where we’ll spend a night before moving on to Yosemite NP. It’s been a whirlwind few days and we recorded some video blogs that either have been […]

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Today we hiked 8 miles, in Arches National Park.(My favorite NP.) It was the fastest 8 miles we have ever hiked. At least I think it was. We started at a downhill, which meant ending on uphill. We went about 0.1 miles before we saw our first arch of the hike. 1 of the arches […]

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Well today was nothing at all like the original plan. We were supposed to wake up at the Kimpton Monaco Denver and drive across Colorado and Utah to a nice deserted campground at Great Basin NP. It’s also turning out to be nothing like the second plan which was to hike at Arches then drive […]

Read More You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Today we visited Canyonlands National Park like we had done before but we visited The Needles District. If you didn’t know Canyonlands National Park is spilt into three districts: Island in the Sky, The Maze, and the Needles District.   This morning we woke up at 7:00 andate the hotel breakfast. I had Raisin Bran […]

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