Double header day! Right after hiking the Alum Cave trail, I drove up to Clingmans Dome and did the 3.5 […]

Double header day! Right after hiking the Alum Cave trail, I drove up to Clingmans Dome and did the 3.5 […]
I lucked out ! I’ve come up to GSMNP many times and have never been able to hike the Alum […]
Abrams Falls is one of my favorite day hikes in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is about 4.9 miles […]
Shaconage (pronounced She-Kon-O-Hey), meaning “Land of the Blue Smoke” is the Cherokee word for the Great Smoky Mountains. This region’s […]
We could not do the Monte Piano climb we had planned for today because the road was closed due to […]
The town we stayed in has 2 names: Niederdorf and Villabassa, population 1600. The region is known as South Tyrol. […]
This day was the best hike of my life so far! We enjoyed a memorable walk under the famous “Three […]
I started the day with an hour massage at the Hotel Gasthaus Adler’s spa. Then a group of us rented […]
We started the walk at 2000 meters altitude walking amongst beautiful wildflowers and ascended to the summit of Strudelkopf. We […]
Today we explored high pastures and ridges along the Austrian border. We walked steadily exploring the meadows under the ridge […]
The ideal start to visiting this vast area of the Italian Dolomites was a walk straight from the Hotel Gasthaus […]