For those of you that are friends with me on Facebook or Twitter, you know that I like to wrap up most weekdays with a short note about the highlight of my day. It’s usually something small – sometimes seemingly insignificant – but to me it’s one thing on that given day which made me…
I’m not gonna lie. With every step I took, I thought about the heavy camera and couple of lenses sitting in the depths of my backpack. There were moments when I questioned my sanity. Everything I’d ever learned about backpacking told me to shed all superfluous weight possible. In my mind, the extra weight was…
Back in 2007, when I hiked the Appalachian Trail, I made a mental note of a specific section of the trail in North Carolina that I knew I’d love to come back to one day. A section with rhododendron tunnels (which I happen to love, love, love), a couple of mountaintop balds with 360 degree…