Backpacking Adventures

Now What? On September 8th, 2025, I walked into Canada. 5 months earlier, I'd been in Mexico. My own two feet got me all the way across the country along the Continental Divide Trail. In 2024, I'd attempted the same feat, but I had to leave the trail early when I got a severe stress fracture in my left femoral neck. For several months, I wasn't even allowed to walk from the couch to the bathroom and back without crutches. Building back up to walking, hiking, and backpacking w

A Must-Do Overnight Hike in Colorado Nestled at the base of Humboldt Peak, a prominent 14er (a mountain whose distinct peak surpasses 14,000 feet in altitude) in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southern Colorado, lies a less notable but equally (if not more) beautiful feature: Upper South Colony Lake. The standard route to the summit of Humboldt Peak takes you to a junction approximately a tenth of a mile from the lake's access point. The 14er is definitely the main attrac

A Reflection on High Risk Recreation As an online member of the outdoor community, I am often exposed to news of accidents and fatalities of outdoor recreationists. Last week alone, a teenager died from a lightning strike atop Mt. Blue Sky in Colorado. A man fell and impaled himself on his trekking pole and hiked out 10 miles on Granite Peak in Montana. Two separate hikers died from falls in the Canadian Rockies. And a Continental Divide Trail thru-hiker fatally fell off a ri