[Please note that this was originally posted on 4.24.19 here. Hiawatha Hiking Company is our new business!] From 2004 to 2010, I wasn’t very physically fit. I had finished high school, went to college, got a master’s degree, and got a job. Regular exercise just wasn’t on my radar. I would have considered myself fairly […]
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[Please note that this was originally posted on 4.4.19 here. Hiawatha Hiking Company is our new business!] Old School In days of yore, the popular trend was to throw on a pair of hiking boots before hitting the trail. Many people subscribe to that trend today. REI’s shoe department is inundated with hiking boots. Boots
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Since it is now April, I find it acceptable to publish the photographs I managed to capture this winter. My hope is that winter will take the hint and finally leave! The 2018/2019 winter up here in the Upper Peninsula was intense, but I am happy to report that we survived the season in the
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[Please note that this was originally posted on 3.23.19 here. Hiawatha Hiking Company is our new business!] With the number of RV super-centers seemingly on the rise, the art of bipedal motion and cycling is not always on the forefront of people’s minds. Before people sat in their cars and pressed levers to get from point
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[Please note that this was originally posted on 3.17.19 here. Hiawatha Hiking Company is our new business!] I wish everyday out on the trail was sunny with pleasant temperatures, but unfortunately Mother Nature often has different plans. If you spend a lot of time hiking outside, there will inevitably become a time where you have to
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Greetings! 2020 reservations are now available for our beginner backpacking trips at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore! Learn the fundamentals of overnight trekking in one of the Midwest’s premiere wilderness locations. Trips are 2-nights and 3-days over 27 miles, with views of Lake Superior, sandstone cliffs, sandy beaches, waterfalls, inland lakes, and a variety of wonderful
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Read by 7-year update here. Big white snowflakes are falling outside in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A non-substantial layer of the fluffy white stuff coats everything outside, and the cloudy, blizzardy air of everything looks like I’m watching television static through my outdoor window. “About 4-6 inches expected,” the weatherman Karl Bohnak said last
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Read my 7-year update here. Moving On It’s been nearly 4.5 months since the end of my Mississippi River trip and subsequently the end of nearly two years of traveling. It’s hard to imagine that all of that has come and gone. It seems like only yesterday that Carolyn and I were planning to quit
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I developed a guide about paddling the Mississippi River a little while ago (click here to view it). If your thinking about paddling the river you will find some information that may be helpful for planning your trip. I am working on a GPS file that I should have completed (hopefully) by the beginning of
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The worst thing that has ever happened to me in my running career was sitting in a canoe for two and a half months on the Mississippi River. I went from a state of peak fitness to something that resembled a loose sack of Russet potatoes. 75 days away from walking of any kind, let
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