Tour de Dirt is an annual group ride that takes place near Floyd, Virginia in the fall. The route changes from year to year but one of our local bi...
Given that it's a new year and given that, in the new year, you commit to things like "Getting In Shape" and "Getting Back on an Exercise Routine",...
I have long day dreamed and planned out bikepacking routes but somehow never built up the gumption to go. Well, I finally gave myself the kick in th...
A few snaps from activities this past fall captured with one of my point-and-shoots, the Canon SD780 IS. There's almost no excuse for not carrying t...
As far as backpacking trips go, having the opportunity to get out into a Wilderness area (Wilderness with a capital "W") probably takes the cake. In...
There are a lot of things to unravel about my experience at Grindstone 100. Or are there? Quite simply, I didn't finish. More broadly, I survived a...
It could be my middle age-ness or it could be an actual truth, but for some reason I feel like the digital cameras of generations past are still via...
It had been an amazing winter and spring full of running, cycling, a couple of backpacking, and camping trips; just peachy. Peachy indeed. Given how...
A few years ago, my friend Chris and I finished the Mountain Masochist trail race, a.k.a. MMTR (read about that Type 2 adventure here and sign up fo...
Stone Mountain State Park near Sparta, North Carolina was a place that I frequently visited as a kid. Growing up, we would go there for car camping...
