This was supposed to be a post about how on our third attempt, after not even seeing the mountain from our approach in 2021 and then deterred by bad weather in 2023, we finally summited the Wyoming high point. But for reasons you’ll soon read, it didn’t happen. Our planned route was from the GlacierContinue reading “Making Good: Backpacking the Teton Crest Trail”
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A Different Kind of Adventure: A Hurricane and the Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia High Points
This year in my ongoing quest to combine state high-pointing and medical conferences, I’d decided on Asheville which would set us up well for a day-hike to the top of North Carolina and a backpacking trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to include Tennessee’s highest land. I was stoked for this trip until aContinue reading “A Different Kind of Adventure: A Hurricane and the Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia High Points”
A Wedding, a Funeral, and Canoeing parts of the Red, Pine, and Mississippi Rivers
Erik and I planned a late May canoe trip in Minnesota months ago in conjunction with a family wedding near Nisswa, Minnesota. We knew we’d canoe part way home from the wedding on a section of the Mississippi Erik had done twice before but that I’d never done. We had the week off before theContinue reading “A Wedding, a Funeral, and Canoeing parts of the Red, Pine, and Mississippi Rivers”
Kayaking the Slate Islands and Backpacking the Sleeping Giant
I learned about Slate Islands Provincial Park from my father-in-law. This archipelago extends into Lake Superior off the “real north shore” of Ontario. There are 15 islands total that were formed when a meteorite impact left a crater and the surrounding land rose up out of Lake Superior. There are woodland caribou here and myContinue reading “Kayaking the Slate Islands and Backpacking the Sleeping Giant”
Backpacking the South Dakota High Point and a Figure-Eight Loop in Rocky Mountain National Park including Longs Peak
First a disclaimer. I started this website and blog in the early months of the COVID pandemic in 2020. I’d been planning it for years but was busy finishing my book. I wanted to write about all my trips, to provide the know-how and inspiration for others. That means that most of my blog reportsContinue reading “Backpacking the South Dakota High Point and a Figure-Eight Loop in Rocky Mountain National Park including Longs Peak”
5 weeks out west: Teddy Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Tetons, Zion, and backpacking the John Muir Trail
In 2012, after Erik convinced me we should quit our jobs and spend the summer adventuring, and after doing just that on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, we shifted directions and headed west. Well, technically we first drove back “home” from Fort Kent, Maine, to Minnesota, where we shared time with both of our families.Continue reading “5 weeks out west: Teddy Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Tetons, Zion, and backpacking the John Muir Trail”
Elspeth Ronnander 