Most camping and backpacking equipment and supplies can be safely and legally packed in your checked and carry on bags. Currently, if you are flying within the US your checked bag can weigh up to 50 lbs. and be 62 inches (w+h+l), so that’s something to monitor closely when packing. Check your airline for checked…
A General Overview. We are going to Yosemite this summer! It’s been 4 years since I’ve been so I pulled out my old packing lists to get started planning. I live across the country from Yosemite and have to fly in, rent a car, and tent camp in the park. I usually fly into San…
Update: Sunday, October 16, 2016 Yesterday Kaylee’s best friend commented on this post with concern that I didn’t have the correct information about the events surrounding Kaylee’s fall from a ledge at a Linville Falls overlook last Sunday evening. I reached out to her and I am editing this post to include the details she…
“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.” ~John Muir After more than 25 years of hiking, backpacking, camping, sauntering & lazing about on mountain tops I had a…
“Never more, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.” ~John Muir
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.” ~Henry David Thoreau I never thought we would enjoy our first winter in the mountains so much, but we definitely have. We have bundled up and headed out for a walk or…
“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.” ~Mary Oliver
A Flatlander's Guide to Nature 