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Hiking the Eagle Rock Trail (ME)

⏳️ 5m / 🥾️ Jul 1, 2024 / 👁️ 315 / 1 Comment

While visiting family over the summer, I was looking for day hikes in places I hadn’t heard of before. That’s when I discovered Eagle Rock Trail. It’s not too long—just under 3.6 mi out (and another 3.6 mi back), with a short spur to Raven Ledge which gives you great views to the west and southwest. […]

Hiking the Profile and Grandfather Trails at Grandfather Mountain State Park (NC)

⏳️ 10m / 🥾️ May 31, 2024 / 👁️ 345 / 3 Comments

Grandfather Mountain is unique among North Carolina’s state parks: there’s the actual state park, but there’s also the privately owned and operated Grandfather Mountain attraction (that includes the Mile High Swinging Bridge). Five of us traveled to Watauga County for a three-day, two-night “base camping” adventure, splitting our time between the two. […]

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Backpacking the Tricorner Loop: Great Smoky Mountains National Park (NC/TN)

⏳️ 12m / 🥾️ Sep 30, 2023 / 👁️ 322 / 4 Comments

[Note: this trip covers four days (well, three and a half, really), but rather than write a separate post for each day of our Tricorner Loop trip, I’m going to consolidate my thoughts into a single post. On YouTube, I posted each day as its own video, but in the future, I think I’ll edit even multiday adventures into an amalgamated whole. […]

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Hiking part of the AT over Barren Mountain (ME)

⏳️ 7m / 🥾️ Aug 6, 2023 / 👁️ 311 / 6 Comments

When I was in high school. a friend invited me to hike Barren Mountain with him and one of his other friends. Back then, the fire lookout was still intact—I remember napping in the cab. It’s gone now—it had been before the last time I climbed Barren, which was…I don’t remember. […]

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Hiking Mount Coe and South & North Brother in Baxter State Park (ME)

⏳️ 6m / 🥾️ Aug 3, 2023 / 👁️ 296 / 2 Comments

My wife and I drove to Portland, Maine, for a concert the night before this hike. We got back to my parents’ place around two in the morning, and my brother intended to pick us up around four. I didn’t get a lot of sleep, but I tried to nab a few winks en route to Baxter State Park. […]

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Hiking Stone Mountain & exploring the Hutchinson Homestead (NC)

⏳️ 6m / 🥾️ May 20, 2023 / 👁️ 319 / 1 Comment

I tested a different camera set up for Stone Mountain. Two cameras are better than one, right? Wrong! At least for the way I’ve settled into doing things. I learned from this experience, but the video suffers for it. That said, I’m still including it, because Stone Mountain State Park is an amazing place, and it’d be a shame if my cinematic ineptitude dissuaded anyone from visiting! […]

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Hiking Borestone Mountain (ME)

⏳️ 7m / 🥾️ Jul 31, 2022 / 👁️ 270 / 6 Comments

Borestone Mountain is the first mountain I ever climbed. Hiked. Walked up. One of those. I was eight, in third grade, and I didn’t know it at the time, but it would prove to be life-changing. All right, that’s a little grandiose, but it would prove to be an important developmental milestone. […]

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