It's Always an Adventure...

Having gotten quite outdoorsy in the past year or two, many of my friends ask if I've always been this adventurous, this on the go, this into hiking... and this list goes on... the answer is: not quite to this extreme but, yes, I've always had a passion for the outdoors. It all began when I was just a little critter and we would go on family camping trips to Allegany State Park, a New York State park about two hours south of Buffalo. I was so young/little that when my dad an

Trip Dates: Wednesday, July 5th-July 8th, 2017 (part one) In anticipation of my upcoming trip to the town of Muskoka in Ontario, Canada, I am going down memory lane to relive the beauty of another part of Canada in which I had the opportunity to explore this past summer: Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Having been to Toronto several times thanks to growing up across the pond in Buffalo, New York, I was eager to delve into Vancouver and experience the Canadian culture o

Trip: Trans-Catalina Trail (50+ miles) Trip Dates: Wednesday, November 22nd - Sunday, November 26th, 2017 AllTrails Track/Recording See the entire TCT map here Photos by Derek Tse (@keredest) While most people may spend their Thanksgiving surrounded by family and watching football, eating turkey, and sleeping off Tryptophan, we did things a bit more... unconventional this year. Myself and five friends started in Avalon and backpacked across Catalina Island and it turns out, i

Trip: Trans-Catalina Trail (50+ miles) Trip Dates: Wednesday, November 22nd - Sunday, November 26th, 2017 Ever since visiting Catalina Island for my birthday last December and stumbling upon the trail head for the Trans-Catalina Trail, I knew I had to visit the island once again and explore more. I researched and researched and researched before finally making campground reservations in May. Fast forward five months, myself and five friends set out on a five day trek to compl

Trip Dates: June 27th-30th, 2017 This is the last post for my (epic) Southwest road trip. I started in Havasu Falls with Girls Who Hike LA and then parted ways to continue onto the Grand Canyon and Page, Arizona, and finally my first visit to Zion National Park in Utah. From Page, AZ it was about a two hour drive to Zion, not bad - not bad at all! I came into Zion through the East side of the park and had a bit of a drive to the visitor center. Pro tip: if you put "visitor ce