Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
First and foremost, happy Father’s Day to two great men. My dad has shown me from a young age that hard work, humor, and a good cocktail lead to a happy life. Happy day to Zak whose wit, wisdom, sense of adventure, and innate sense to nurture Zoe, Ellie, and me make life fun. We […]
Read More Day 10: Great Basin National Park and Baker, NevadaToday started with Kerouc’s breakfeast. Which for me was a berry muffin. Today we planned on backpacking up a mountain, but because of all the snow we were not able to do that hike. So we went to the ranger station and asked for suggestions of what to do today. The ranger was very nice […]
Read More The day I backpackedThis morning I woke up at either 6:33 or 7:33 I’m 90% sure it was 6:33 but there is no way to actually know. Time change is super confusing especially when there is no WiFi and your phone doesn’t update. Despite the time we each grabbed a pastry from Kerouac’s. I had a delicious berry […]
Read More Backpacking at Great Basin NPThis day had the potential to be a bad one and if we had had this day two years ago I’m not sure any of us would be talking. I’m ridiculously proud of us. It was a tough day, but we rocked it. We woke up super early for some reason, I think because we […]
Read More Day 9: Great Basin National ParkWhat a day! We have met some of the best folks today and that’s always some of the highlights of the trips. The first stop of the day was at U Dig Fossils for some fossil digging! I wasn’t sure what to expect, except I knew I wanted to find a triceratops. Turns out that […]
Read More Day 8: Fossil Digging and BakerToday we did not do much. This morning started by playing harthstone and having holiday inn breakfeast and driving 2.5 hours to U dig fossils. The drive was pretty uneventful. Once we made it to the spot. We got hammers and buckets. Cole showed us how to find the fossils. First you find a rock […]
Read More The day I found a fossilThis morning we slept in because we were all sooooo tired from the long exhausting night we had last night filled with obnoxious people on HGTV and pizza. We woke up to my mom randomly singing “Oh, yeah, this is happening.” So that was weird. Then we drove about 3 hours to the trilobite excavating […]
Read More Fossil Digging and Baker NVThis morning after our last good hotel breakfast we drove 30 minutes to the Fisher Towers trail head. Ranger Mike suggested that so we did just that. The hike was beautiful. There were views the whole way up. At one point we saw a few people climbing which is so cool and I want to […]
Read More Hiking Fisher TowersToday we had breakfast at the hotel and then drove 30 minutes to Fisher Towers. Then we started to hike. The way up to the overlook was very steep and hard. On the way up we saw some people rock climbing. We had so much fun making up stories ambout pirates and princesses and monkeys. […]
Read More The day I saw a 360 veiwKudos to Ranger Mike for, once again, suggesting an awesome hike. We took it a little more easy today after yesterday’s long and uppy hike. We were the first hikers of the day to the Fisher Towers trailhead, which really surprised me, as we didn’t get there until 8:45. With the exception of some climbers […]
Read More Day 7: Fisher Towers