One little Heidi, one big world
Alas, my final post of my final day of my crazy trip trying to get all of the National Park Service units visited in the DC region! September 16, 2023 DC is an absolute ghost town at 8:15am on a Saturday. It is a bit bizarre to be in a place where hotels are cheaper… Continue reading DC Round Two – Part 3: Ford’s Theatre, National Mall, Rock Creek Park, and Clara Barton National Historic Site
Continuing on my whirlwind trip to finish out all the DC National Park Service (NPS) units... September 15, 2023 My work conference wrapped up with a half-day session, which meant for the next 24 hours I would be on personal time before my flight home! I had chosen to swap hotels, trading in some Hilton… Continue reading DC Round Two – Part 2: Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS, Belmont Paul Women’s Equality NM, and Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP
Work would take me to Washington, DC once again, so I knew I had to make the best of it, and finish out the remaining National Park Service (NPS) units I had not visited during my previous trip in 2022. Unlike in 2022, a lot of sites that were closed for renovation were reopened and… Continue reading DC Round Two – Part 1: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt Island, and LBJ Memorial Grove
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 