Explore the best hiking trails and tips for your next adventure. Discover breathtaking views and useful advice for your hiking journey at Rock Chuck Summit.
Whether you’re looking for enhanced stability, relief from knee soreness, or simply to burn more calories during your hike, trekking poles offer these benefits at an affordable price. Essentially, hiking poles, also known as trekking poles, are sticks that have been used and perfected over time to improve stability, traction, and performance across various hiking…
I’m lying in snow, 14,000 feet above sea level on a volcano known as Nevado de Toluca, when I feel warm breath against my hand. Exhale, groan, roll over. It’s a dog, come to investigate my motionless form. “Good dog,” I slur and raise a hand to pat her head. Her name is Maya, I think, and she’s been tagging along with our hiking group since this morning.
One of the most historical hiking trails in all of Los Angeles includes a demolished Compound chock full of graffiti-plastered ruins
The first thing I learned at Black Elk Peak was to never wear the wrong socks to a mountain hike. Its worse than bringing a knife to a gunfight. It’s like bringing a toy sword to a gunfight. Inappropriate and painful.
Many people think of the snow-covered minarets of Mammoth as a skiing destination but there is so much more to do in this charming mountain town then skiing! Try snowshoeing, snowmobiling or even dog sledding this winter!
Hiking is one of the best ways to meet the target of a ‘healthy body’. By combining the happiness of natural beauty with physical fitness, hiking can turn into a fun and adventurous activity. Enough stock of water and enthusiasm to keep going is all you need to accomplish this beneficial feat. There are several…
White Sands New Mexico is a geological marvel of the desert. Gypsum sand dunes rising from the valley floor for miles, windswept and white as snow. Some of the dunes brush right up against the highway and often you will see cars pulled over with people inquisitively dipping their hands or feet into this magical…
Ever since my childhood trips to the Rockies, I’ve been enchanted by the thought of conquering mountains on foot. It was in July of 2018 that my dream turned into reality. During a one-week getaway to our favorite mountain town, Breckenridge, Colorado, my family and I set our sights on the majestic Quandary Peak. This…