go hike a mountain

Not long after waking up at the rest area we stayed the night at, we discovered that the bad storm from the night before involved a tornado that ripped through Memphis, killing 50 people and injuring over 100. When I looked back at the map, I realized we had come within 150 miles of Memphis, […]

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After getting a good night’s sleep and taking another warm shower in Ft. Wayne, we left the Hagans’ house at around 8am. It had snowed a little the night before, but there wasn’t enough on the ground to get in the way of driving. We backtracked to Ohio’s highpoint, passing a lot of foggy farmland […]

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After waking up in West Virginia we made a decision to bypass Ohio’s highpoint (which is closed on the weekend) and do Indiana’s highpoint and backtrack. The drive through West Virginia was interesting. The road took us through the mountains with a lot of valleys with a few houses and business cut into the hillsides. […]

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We woke up this morning at about 6:30 in the rest area we slept at. It was chilly in the car and my pants were so cold that I had to put them in my sleeping bag with me for a few minutes before putting them on. The good news is that we both felt […]

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After finishing up on Mt. Mansfield, we took a ferry across Lake Champlain to put us in New York. The plan was to get to the High Peaks area in the Adirondack Forest early enough to see if we could find available camping and to cook a big meal. We ended up arriving at the […]

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