North America

Someone asked me the other day "Tally, where do you find all these cool hiking spots?"Short answer: Google ("Hiking Spots in LA"), but I occasionally get recommendations from friends and Uber/Lyft passengers, one of which recommended…

California is home to pretty much everything (hiking, beaches, rattlesnakes, the best food in the nation, etc). One thing it doesn't have? Alligators (and swamps, but Louisiana can keep those). Alligator Swamps of Honey Island My aunt,…

As river crossings go it was fairly safe, but the cold made it rough. Just to our south, we could see the glacier that fed the lake at the head of the river. This water had been ice not too long before. That crossing was at mile twelve of…

In the summer of 2015, my boyfriend and I went off adventuring into the White Mountains of the Eastern Sierras. This was only a month after I had back surgery and we had dreams of conquering Mt Whitney along with White Mountain Peak in…

Our second hike of the day of course had to be Lembert Dome! This bald, protruding rock had been staring at us ever since we arrived in the park.

I once came across an article comparing Sunken City to the Lost City of Atlantis."Well that would make a hell of a hiking spot," I thought.I've since had Sunken City on the forefront of my mind, eager to explore the ruins of the…

Turnbull Canyon Trail is so big that I had to actually hike this twice just to be able to cover most aspects of it.And it's large for a reason: the canyon is part of the Puente Hills Preserve in Uptown Whittier that links to other…

The cockpit, indeed the entire front half of the plane was gone, ripped from the rest of the plane. What seemed to be the front half was separate, crushed on the ice quite far from the rear of the plane. The most recognizable pieces were…

The rain was falling lightly, enough to ensure that I had the entire trail to myself. About half a mile in, the trail seemed to fall away at a bluff. I stood there in silence, looking out over a medium-sized lake framed by mountains, with a…

This New Year's instead of staying in the bustle of Austin, waiting for the fireworks and drinking to my heart's content, I thought I would do something different. I would backpack into Big Bend National Park and enjoy my New Year's hiking…