Category: OCT

We got up at 5:30AM and went through the drive-thru at MacDs at 6. Then drove over to Fort Steven’s State Park to the South Jetty. Where the Oregon Coast Trail starts. The 3...

Nancy and I drove up to Astoria, OR this afternoon and are staying in a restored 1920’s place called Hotel Norblad. A “Snazzy” place with reasonably priced rooms and bathrooms down the hall. The...

Just a short entry as I try to get all the things in my real life in good order so that I can be gone for a month on the trail. My daughter and...

Last week I met friends, Cappuccino, Level, and Jolly Rancher, in Albuquerque for a backpacking trip into the Gila Wilderness of SW New Mexico. Roughly a 5 to 6 hour drive from ABQ, the...

In preparation for a trip out to New Mexico next week, and in spite of predicted bad weather here, I did a shakedown overnight trip to nearby Hardesty Mountain. I was on the road...

It was 1962. I was 12 years old, a new Boy Scout in Troop 53 in El Paso, TX, and I was going on my first real camping trip. We were told we were...