Outdoor Recreation
All of my posts under the category of outdoor recreation are here. I am especially focused on backpacking, paddling, and low-impact travel.
From May to September, 2023, I worked as a guide in Yellowstone National Park. Working 5-6 days a week and roughing it by sleeping in my car, I would wake up at 4:30 in the morning, drive the company van to West Yellowstone, Montana, pick up my customers, then spend Read more
If you have spent any time on my website, you know that I am someone who heeds the call of adventure. I work as an outdoor guide, do not have a permanent address, and spend most of my free time planning my next trip. South America had long been at Read more
Much of the time we spent in Bolivia was on a journey that had us almost constantly on the move and took us from high up in the Andes down into the Amazon Rainforest. We started in the city of La Paz then spent three days walking down an old Read more
Sumaco Volcano: At the edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon sits the little-visited Parque Nacional Sumaco Napo-Galeras. Just six hours from Quito by bus, the park covers a wide variety of elevations ranging from 500 meters (1640 feet) above sea level to the summit of Sumaco Volcano at 3,830 meters (12,566 Read more
Background: Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, casually known as Tayrona, is a popular tourist attraction on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. So after arriving in the nearby coastal city of Barranquilla, we spent 2 days in Tayrona for an easy start to our Colombian adventure. About Tayrona: Tayrona, is the crown Read more
In 1935, two outdoors people living in Seattle confronted a problem. They loved to mountaineer, but a good Austrian ice axe would break the bank. So to solve the problem, they cut out the middlemen and started ordering the ice axes directly from Austria, saving a whole lot of money Read more