All week, I had big plans for this past Friday.  I was going to go solo backpacking, just for one night, in a part of Shenandoah National Pa...

Yesterday, I joined the Richmond - Charlottesville Adventurers for an out and back up Nicholson Hollow in Shenandoah National Park.  There w...

It's always special to take a hike when most of the rest of the world is working, and that is what I did last Friday (may 8).  I had the...

After six weeks of being very sedentary to rest my sore ankle - I gave up wearing the boot because it made my back hurt - I finally lost pa...

Ah, spring is in the air! Time to lace up those boots and hit the trails, eh?  Well, the best laid plans... Because, for me, the boot on...

I really had three choices for hiking today - well, four if you include not going anywhere as one choice.  One would be to pick a hike on my...