We went down to Arkansas for Thanksgiving week. Tucker has been wanting to climb Arkansas’ tallest mountain for a while now so I decided it would be a good opportunity for Zhen Zhen’s first backpacking trip. Since it was Zhen Zhen’s first backpacking trip, and for that matter her first camping trip, we [...]
We took the kids out to the Burr Oak Woods conservation area out in Blue Springs today. Tucker loves going because there is a large area of huge limestone outcrops and boulders to climb on. Harper is cool with it because it only involves about a mile and a half of hiking. Once [...]
Tucker and I just got back from a 3 day backpacking trip to the Holy Cross Federal Wilderness in Colorado. Holy Cross is around 120,000 acres and is located just southwest of Vail. Tucker has been wanting to do a Colorado backpacking trip for years now so he was very exited to go. [...]
Harper and Tucker were on Spring Break this week and went down to Arkansas to spend it with their cousins. Tucker has been itching to go on a backpacking trip all winter long, so I took Thursday and Friday out and drove down to Hot Springs. I tried to get [...]
We had another very unseasonably warm day today, so while Harper and Tiffani went to a birthday party, Tucker and I decided to go climb some boulders (well really just Tucker, I just watched and made sure he did not fall).
There may not be any mountains in the Kansas City area, but we do have [...]
Let me start with that it was my intention to hike the 27 mile Eagle Rock Loop. The Eagle Rock Loop is a combination of three trails that form the longest loop trail in the Ouachitas. Its a beautiful area that would have been a national park, had Herbert Hoover not vetoed the bill that [...]