One little Heidi, one big world
October 13, 2023 Let's go climb a mountain!! I cannot resist a good mountain summit, especially of a super pretty mountain... anddddd it would be the last mountain of my 30s! Wheeler Peak rises to 13,063 feet in the Snake Range of the Great Basin. The peak boasts all sorts of accolades: Great Basin National… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 3: Hiking Wheeler Peak at Great Basin National Park
October 12, 2023 We awoke on a beautiful vista outside of the Snake Creek entrance of Great Basin National Park, eager to the see the views after arriving at the campsite after dark (and an adventurous drive). Our neighbors at a campsite further down had left, so we decided to move down to that site… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 2: Great Basin National Park – Bristlecone Pines, Glacier, and Lehman Caves… Oh My!
My 40th birthday trip has had quite a few iterations over the past year of planning, but in the end it still involved the thing it always had in the plan: the annular solar eclipse in Great Basin National Park on October 14th. "Last minute" plans came to fruition about a month out, and a… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 1: Cathedral Gorge State Park and Great Basin National Park
This blog is really covering two topics - my first solo backpacking trip and summiting Mount Alice, so might get a bit long winded... Honestly, a lot of Rocky Mountain National Park's highest summits are off the beaten path, and not easily accomplished as day hikes (Longs Peak being the perfect example of this as… Continue reading Colorado Hiked: Mount Alice
When you're scrambling to figure out wilderness camping permits the night before they go on sale, everything seems like a good idea... especially hauling a forty-pound pack for ten miles up 3000 feet of elevation gain! Okayyy... the trip to Lost Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park was well worth it, and I should not… Continue reading A Weekend at Lost Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park
The Adventuring Heidi 