A solo hike? By myself? All alone in the familiar, yet wild Adirondacks? Like…drive up to the Adirondacks and hike by myself? A few months prior to June of 2017 I would have surely found another activity to do locally on a weekend where I couldn’t find hiking mates. But after living in Albany, New York […]
30 seconds. Maybe it was even less. That is how long we had feeling in our feet if we stood still in the water. Would you wade out into the frigid water of Iceberg Lake (you can probably guess why it has that name)? Would you climb on the chunks of ice floating in the […]
Curiosity roamed free on Thursday, August 10, 2017. A turquoise blue lake awaited us tucked behind a 6.5 mile hike along a moderately trafficked trail. The Cracker Lake hike gains 1,686 feet in elevation. This was a day of exploration of glacier-like chunks of ice, wild flower filled glacial trickles feeding cracker lake, climbing red […]
A great hiking trip is incomplete without a “refresh day”. Swimming under a 34-45 degree waterfall is certainly refreshing – more than refreshing. Kayaking with views of the mountainous Many Glacier Hotel with 360 degrees of peaks is mentally refreshing. Wednesday, August 9th was a reset day in which we let our spontaneity and curiosity […]
Hey Summit Squad, First off, I’m super stoked that To Summit Up now has a logo (up in the header at the top of the page as well as right below)! What do you think? Secondly, we are going to continue our journey through my week at Glacier National Park in Montana from Summer 2017. […]
Hi To Summit Up squad! I apologize that it has been quite some time since my last post. Grad school and work are certainly keeping me busy. It is quite refreshing to take a quick break and write and I certainly feel that I should be allotting a little bit each week to stay fresh […]
Mountain Crew, **Head over to the gallery to see photos from the winter hike! Brace yourselves for the first Adirondack adventure post on To Summit Up! I had been itching to get back to hike in the Adirondacks, as my previous hike in one of my favorite regions dates back to October. The past few […]
Monday, January 15th: The Third Ski Day. **Head over to the gallery from Whistler Blackcomb – January 2018 to see all of the photos from this incredible trip to Whistler, British Columbia!** Another night of knocked-out sleep as if Muhammad Ali had stung me like a bee had me as rejuvenated as I could be. […]
Sunday, January 14th: The Second Ski Day. ** As always, head over to the gallery from Whistler Blackcomb – January 2018 to see all photos from my adventures! ** Somewhat adjusting to the Pacific timezone (or maybe it was just how much the skiing wiped us out), my Dad, brother, and I all got a […]
**I am still working on getting the full Gallery up and running so please bear with me as I get it going! I’ll be sure to make it known on social media when I have the gallery up.** Friday, January 12th: Travel Day. This trip had been on the radar for over a month and […]
