Category: Maverick’s 4000 Footers

Let me just say I did not think this one would happen. As I mentioned in my last blog post about hiking, I’ve had my eye on the Franconia Ridge for a long time. Lafayette is the queen on that ridge standing at 5,260 ft […]

Making the decision to turn back on a hike is harder than making the decision to hike a certain trail. Today was a bluebird day in the Whites. Absolutely perfect for summitting. Albeit a bit chilly (10 degrees at the trailhead even in the late […]

Maverick and I set out for our very first sunrise hike yesterday. It’s something I had been wanting to do for a long time. Sunrises and sunsets are always something very special to me and being able to watch one atop a mountain would be […]

How does one accidentally hike a 4,000 footer you may ask? Well, you’ve never met me and Maverick then. So my schedule has stayed crazy busy between my jobs and online classes lately and I’ve been suffering the consequences of not being able to get […]

Today marks a month since returning to American soil for Maverick and I. It’s been a whirlwind of a month, too. From going back to being a permanent sub, to starting up online classes, and also working too many shifts at the restaurant…it’s been hard. […]

Yesterday we got to check another 4,000 footer off the list and we even got to do it with one of our favorite people! Linda has been such an influential person in my life, especially this past year, I don’t know what I’d do without […]

After waking up yesterday feeling so lost, I knew we needed to take off for the mountains today. And that’s just what we did. I wanted to do another 4,000 footer because I’ve got that itch to do all 48, but I didn’t want to […]

As another aspect of this adventure blog, I figured I’d detail Maverick and my adventures through New Hampshire as well. For the next few months, this will be the only entry on this topic but I wanted to write about our hike up Mount Washington […]