“The mountains are calling… And I must go”. – John Muir The Eighth Week – Entering The Wonderland Reaching a significant milestone on the PCT… 700 miles done and we can finally wave farewell…
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills The Seventh Week – Staying Strong And Making Strides To Reach The Sierra Making it to Mile 550… Because every step counts!…
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“Walking is man’s best medicine”. – Hippocrates The Sixth Week – Perseverance Will Prevail Into the desert proper… Taking respite from the sun under a cactus palm as we cross the western arm of…
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“Potest quia posse videntur – He can because he thinks he can”. – From ‘The Pacific Crest Trail’, Cicerone, by Brian Johnson Muir The Fifth Week – Turning Into Walking Machines… Celebrating being a…
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“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”. – Terri Guillemets The Fourth Week – In It For The Long Haul… This week we reached 300 miles…
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“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out I found was really going in”. – John Muir The Third Week – Upping Our Game……
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“To walk for long periods is to escape the quotidian, to leave jobs, people and life’s minutiae for routines of a different, more nourishing kind. The effects of solitude, like those of landscape, accrue…
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“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time”. – Steven Wright The First Week – Breaking Ourselves In! Beginning our dream hike across western USA on the Pacific Crest Trail. Day 1 –…
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Walking 2,659 Miles In The Wilderness… Hiking this distance, whilst being completely self-sufficient takes a lot of preparation. So where to begin? Planning for a hike of such magnitude can seem more than a…
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Old Favourites… Famed for its huge natural diversity, ranging from thriving pine forests in rugged mountain valleys to colourful spires and intricate slot canyons, to sandstone cliffs and vast desert, Utah certainly has the…
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Returning To The ‘Beehive’ State… During our 50 day road trip across the southwest, we spent the longest amount of time (around 3 weeks in total) exploring the state of Utah. From trekking across…
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Visiting The Rockies & Hiking In Colorado’s Finest National Park! Colorado can boast 13 national parks, 15 national historic landmarks, 11 national natural landmarks and three national historic trails. As it was our first…
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Our First Time Visiting Colorado To Discover North America’s Tallest Sand Dunes! From New Mexico, it was time for us to head into another new state. We drove around 400 miles into Colorado, the…
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Discovering More Of ‘The Land of Enchantment’… This being our first visit to New Mexico, and having started it off with a bang by celebrating my 35th birthday at the ‘2014 International Balloon Fiesta‘…
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A Photo Essay From Our USA Road Trip! Whilst having travelled 5,000 miles across the USA back in 2011, we never made it to the state of New Mexico. So this time around on…
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Hiking In The Grand Canyon & Discovering More Of Arizona… After completing the John Muir Trail and enjoying a few days of rest in Lone Pine, we were eager to get back to some…