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Natural Born Hikers
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Hi there! So, you want to know a little bit about our hiking crew do you? Well, the story begins many centuries ago in a gothic circle of stones…no wait, that’s a completely different story, never mind. Okay, seriously (grab a cup of coffee and dim the lights) our story begins like this…Once upon a time in the forests of Ohio, way back in the 1980’s, a trio of kids (weisey, pick, and lulu) would hike and hike and hike, encouraged by weisey’s dad sonny (the guy who started this whole hiking obsession), along the trails of places like Blackhand Gorge and Flint Ridge. They loved hiking so much that they started dragging along their friends, which of course soon lent itself to kids dreaming of hiking mountains, deserts, canyons, and glaciers, and when the trio got old enough they set out for the nearest mountains they could find; The Blue Ridge Mountains, and so it all began.
Every summer from that first trip on, way back in 1986, we would scrounge together enough money to put some gas in the Chevy and hit the road. We hiked many great trails on those trips, especially the Chimney Tops in The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, one of our favorites to this day. From there we branched out to places like Assateague Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes, and even The Keys of Florida, but for many years we were the poster children for poor backpackers. Even on our first trip out west, we stayed in mom and pop hotels that cost about thirty bucks a night, ( that’s ten bucks each for all of you mathematically challenged readers out there). Suffice to say, that anywhere we could go cheap we went! And when we went, we made it worth the price of the flight.
Our first trip out west went something like this: Fly into Denver, drive to Rocky Mountains and hike a few trails, drive to Dinosaur N.M and…damn its closed, drive to Flaming Gorge and hike a few trails, drive to Grand Teton and hike a few trails, drive to Yellowstone and hike a few trails, drive to Devil’s Tower and hike a few trails, drive to Mount Rushmore and snap a few photos of one cool rock, drive to Badlands and hike a few trails, drive back to Rocky Mountains and hike a few more trails, drive to Denver airport and hop on plane, plan next trip while flying home. This craziness would all be fit into a two week time period, and repeated several times throughout our young lives. I won’t bore you with all the details ( I know too late right?) but we did this same whirlwind type of tour with the Four-Corners Region, the Pacific Coast, the Southwest, the Canadian Rockies, the Southeast, and New England. On each trip we would drive about 5,000 miles and cram more into two weeks than most people see in a lifetime, and for less than $500 bucks each…those were the days.
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