Note From the Editor

Thanks to Jono Hey for the beautiful photograph!

Owen's Valley sunset from Convict Lake by Jono Hey licensed under CC BY 2.0

Our good friend, Koko, who lives in Amsterdam was awesome enough to write our second guest post which will be released tomorrow.  He and our other friend, Katie will be hiking in the Alps in June. They are going to help us greatly by providing some fresh content for the blog by publishing several of their European hiking adventures while Allison and I are off the grid hiking the PCT.

This next hiking story, like many of the other hiking adventures we have been posting recently, is part of our huge collection of backlogged hikes from the summer 2014 hiking season.  Koko's post on Monday along with our post last week, Snow Lake represent the last hikes before Allison, Jaxxon &  I left the Pacific Northwest to live in the Sierra Nevada in August 2014.  This means that we are going to, finally, start posting about hiking in the Sierra Nevada.  Hiking in this area is vastly different from hiking in the PNW.  It offers its share of new challenges (think finding water to remain hydrated) and rewards (think mindbogglingly beautiful high desert sunrises and sunsets almost every day of the year).

Also I'd like to thank all of our readers for your support.  We started working on a social media campaign to increase readership a little more than a month ago.  It has had great results with a huge spike in our readership and it is all thanks to you, the reader.  We are going to continue to grow the blog with both new readership and also more guest authorship.  That said, please pass on the link to our blog to any individual you know who is interested in the outdoors and hiking and also to any related organization.  Also please consider sharing any of your hiking adventures with our readers as a guest author.  Feel free to contact us to that end anytime.

As always, thanks for reading,