Tag: hiking
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South West Coast Path: A Mad Scramble for a Room
Our restful two nights ended in a flurry of anxiety when I discovered an email last night buried in our junk folder. Our reservation for tonight (Saturday), one that had been confirmed last February, had been canceled! Madly searching for an alternative proved fruitless Friday night, everyplace we called was booked. Finally, this morning, after…
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South West Coast Path: So Many Stairs
Sue climbs a flight of the 30,000 stairs on England’s South West Coast Path. No, I did not add a zero. But I am adding as we walk. So far, 2,159 stairs in five days, 64 miles, and 13,200 feet of ascent. But this is not a story best told by the numbers.
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South West Coast Path: Ups and Downs
Day 1 dawned sunny and warm…an ideal start for our South West Coast Path trek. We had a bit of climbing ahead of us, 1,200 feet to be exact, along the shore, up a forested hillside and across green rolling cliff tops where sheep and cattle grazed. And then we plunged back down to sea…
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South West Coast Path: Endless Anticipation
It has been six months since we sat down with guidebooks, maps and iPads to book the lodgings for our South West Coast Path trek. At the time, the trip was well in the future so we were fairly relaxed about the plans. Now that our September start date is just around the corner, the…
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Thank You George Mahood
www.facebook.com/267303656684896/posts/2225309644217611 We were thrilled when author George Mahood posted an enthusiastic shout-out for Reg’s book – Camino Sunrise: Walking With My Shadows on his Facebook page. You can read George’s kind words by clicking the above link. George has published a handful of books himself, based on his own entertaining and often outrageous adventures. I…
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A Teacup and a Chimney
While the trail up to the base of the chimney stack was well-worn and doable, it wasn’t easy. We later realized that what we scrambled up was an informal (not on the map) trail and not the recommended viewpoint we had been searching for. However, the view we had was pretty darn good!
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Lost in the Granite Dells
Several folks insisted the great hiking through unusual rock formations (know as Granite Dells) just outside the city of Prescott, Arizona was not to be missed. We packed our lunch, filled our water bottles and set off over the hill to see what all the fuss was about. These granite boulders were formed 1.4 billion…
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Red Rock Thrills
The HiLine trail took us up, down and all around Cathedral Rock, connecting us with the Baldwin Trail and then to the Templeton Trail, an 8-mile Loop that took us back to where we began.
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