Laurel Highlands

Wow I love Ohiopyle! If only my phone hadn’t died on me I could have taken some photos of this amazing tiny town. It’s got so many activities for the outdoors. We crossed a pretty high bridge over the beautiful, fat river which was hilariously signposted something along the lines of, “No jumping, fishing or

Backpack blogging: There have been amazing views, interesting people along the way, greenery, cute animals and long luscious nights of dead tired sleep. Its raining and freezing cold tonight though – a fire would have been amazing if we had some dry wood… I cant stop thinking about home comforts… snuggling my boys, enjoying a

Backpack blogging: On day two we figured out Anna’s shoes were a half size too small too late – she’d already lost most of the skin on both her heels. So for the rest of this trip Anna’s been hiking in her flip-flops! In the rain, through mud and sludgy steep downhills, no arch support

Backpack blogging: Filtering water at our lunch break spot as the water will be contaminated at our shelter area. It’s been fun hiking with Anna for a lot of reasons. She packs awesomely delicious food and snacks which have been life savers on cold rainy days. Anna’s also a great spotter of cute snails, amazing

Backpack blogging: On our maps it says 10, but its a mile each way to walk down to the shelter areas. Its adding more miles than we anticipated. The shelters are so cute and are a huge relief on rainy days but they don’t have bunks in them like I anticipated from other hiking trips.