My Quality Day

  Saturday, August 16, 2009. This was a gold star day for us. All of our legs were working pretty well, and we finished a major connection ...

  It was too early for many flowers to be out yet, but several were opening during the final week of our hike. I'm sharing these two be...

This is the first time I've taken this long of a trip in May. I've been out for five days in this month other years. But never b...

  We don't look like the brightest bulbs in the room in this picture, but here is the group (except me, I took the picture) that f...

  Well, if all went as planned we have reached our car this afternoon, and are probably warm and snug in a motel. There aren't t...

So, how does the trail stay open at all, given wind, fire, water... The answer is "VOLUNTEERS." Almost all of the work of any ...

In 1999, a devastating wind storm blew through the Superior National Forest. It flattened trees like a box of wooden matches thrown on th...

Tonight we are camping near Agamok Bridge. This is where the 2003 Volunteer Vacation trip ended. It's an amazing structure to come up...

  Today we re-enter the Wilderness on the Kekekabic Trail. It was originally a fire road through the Superior National Forest, but decade...

I am going to use our travel days to tell you about the trails we will be hiking. Today is the Kekekabic Trail (KEK), Say KEK-kuh-kah...