Hiking & Outdoors
Trail guides, outdoor adventures and practical notes from the Rockies, Europe and beyond.
Girona – Fortified by Battle, Softened by Peace
Girona was the perfect final stop: a medieval fortress town softened by gardens, families, pintxos and wine. After weeks of crowds and constant movement, its walls, winding streets and quiet evenings gave us space to simply exist before one final storm turned the journey home into an adventure.
Valley of the Temples — Second Chances
Four years after a rushed first visit, we returned to Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples with time to slow down, learn, and finally understand what we were seeing. From Concordia and the Telamons to the landscape itself, the second visit turned ancient ruins into a living story.
Bull Creek Hills
A nice 14km hike on a warm spring day! Lots of up then lots of down. Snow in areas but relatively dry. Did this April 2, 2021. The full loop was almost in sight but we did a detour and came back almost the same way we went up.
Rocky Ridge
First hike of 2021! This short out and back was done March 13, 2021. After a couple weeks of above 0, we decided to try a hike instead of a snowshoe. Trail was hard packed snow but was melted just enough that it wasn’t ice. Windy at the top of the knoll where we turned.
Bull Creek Hills
I’m a bit late posting this. We did this hike April 28, 2019 (Curtis and I). We weren’t sure on conditions so we just winged it for location. It’s our second official hike of the season so we wanted something relatively easy. We couldn’t really find any trails; it seemed like they came and went…
Murray Creek Snowshoe
We did this snowshoe on Saturday January 26, 2019. Present company was Curtis and myself. This was the first time we’ve been out snowshoeing for almost 2 years. We didn’t hike much in the summer either due to wildfires so we wanted something short but sweet. Today’s forecast was supposed to be above 0 so…
East End of Burns
We did this hike Sunday June 24, 2018. I did some reading and discovered this hike was relatively forgotten; not much was written and not many people seemed to hike it. We parked at the end of the Sheep River road and began our hike. I knew we would need to do some bushwhacking from…
