This is a look back at the outdoor highlight of my year from 2020. I wanted to get this out sometime close to the end of the year but I just couldn’t quite hit the send button because I had to buy in myself. When my college friends and I began planning a rim to…
This June a couple of friends and I set out on a road trip that would take us through thousands of miles of country, national parks and monuments, campsites, and trout streams. Our destination was Glacier National Park, located in northwest Montana. Glacier is said to be the “Crown of the Continent;” spanning over a…
Visiting Zion National Park after hiking the Grand Canyon has become a ritual for me. It just seems natural to wrap up a big hike with a relaxing visit to Zion as long as it includes a trip wading the cool waters on the Virgin River. My trip this year was no different. Well actually…
Hiking rim to river in the Grand Canyon should really be on every serious hiker’s hit list. The hike originates and ends on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon Village. Mileage will vary a bit depending on where you park and/or shuttle from. The actual posted mileage is around 16.5 miles….
The below text is something that I wrote this summer, obviously before we did our big hike. I just never had the guts to post it. Far more sharing than I am typically comfortable doing. But its been sitting here, stewing in my draft box for months, just staring at me. I guess maybe that…
Katie is a college freshman this year, my first child to take the leap away from home on a regular basis. While I am thrilled for Katie, I also miss her and worry about how she is doing like any parent would. So it absolutely brightens my day to receive a text like this: “Hi!!…
In 1984, I turned 19 and graduated from high school and went away to college in St. Louis. My sister Mary was there, a year ahead of me, and I had two high school classmates who came along with me. These were the only people I knew. You never know who God is going to…
I really didn’t know anything about Zion National Park or the Narrows. I knew it was in Utah, and have seen some pretty amazing photos from there, but that is about the extent of it. Dan Klein (www.mythreefiftynine.com), had been there and insisted that we spend at least a day there as part of our…
I always like the brisk mountain mornings in the middle of the hot summer. Knowing that the sun will heat it up by noon but still be humidity free makes it ideal to spend the day outside in the beauty that God created. We started at the trailhead in long sleeves and jackets and…
Rim to Rim 2018 is in the books. The terrain beautiful, and hike challenging, the comraderie unforgettable, and the experience a memory of a lifetime. Dan Klein said as we started out that day, “It’s not every day you get to do something you will remember the rest of your life”, and I know that…
