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Riding the Old Champlain Canal Trail
Wednesday’s weather was fantastic. It was also my birthday! When I got home Jordan and I decided to take our bikes out for a quick ride before dinner. We both recently got “alternative road bikes” which are meant for road/dirt/gravel trails. So far, we love them. We rode along the Old Champlain Canal which starts in Waterford. It was a nice, quiet gravel trail, perfect for our bikes. We rode about ~10 miles total. In mid-April I injured my knee when I was riding at North Bethlehem. I went to the Bone and Joint Center where they did an x-ray (no fracture)-just a bone bruise. So I haven’t been riding much…
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A Visit to Salem
Last weekend, my friend Lyndsay and I drove to Massachusetts for a wedding! Two of our good friends from college were getting married! The wedding venue was only 20 minutes from Salem, a place we’d both been wanting to visit. We met my sister and her husband at Gulu Gulu cafe for lunch and drinks. I got the nitro cold brew coffee–it was so good. It looks just like a stout! We only had about an hour to check out the Witch City. As you probably know, Salem is famous for the Salem Witch Trials back in 1692. Everyone remembers reading The Crucible in school, right? The building below is…
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Hiking Basin and Saddleback and Camping at Rollins Pond
I hope everyone had a great Labor Day Weekend! Mine was fantastic! The past few weeks have been pretty great. I started my Dietetic Internship, did a few other hikes, and this past weekend got together with my closest hiking friends for a weekend in the Adirondacks. Brendan, Jenna, her friend Colleen and I booked a camp site at Rollins Pond in Saranac Lake for two nights. We had the best camp site! It was big, secluded, and right on the pond, complete with its own beach. How had I never camped here before?? We arrived Saturday afternoon, set up camp, and cooked dinner. We went to bed pretty early because…
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Hiking the Devil’s Garden, Arches National Park
Finally, we arrived in Moab! Not only is Moab close to Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, it is the mountain biking capital of the US! First on our to-do list while in Moab: hike the Devil’s Garden Trail in Arches National Park. The Devil’s Garden is the longest hiking trail in the park at about 7 miles RT. With side trails to many different arches and cool rock formations, it was high on my list ! At one point the trail got a little hairy. It went up and over these big slickrock ledges, with cairns marking the path. How do these arches form, you ask? According…
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Bryce Canyon Half Marathon
After picking up our race packets for the Bryce Canyon Half Marathon, we checked into our lodge (Ruby’s Inn!), we drove into the park to watch the sunset in the canyon. On our way in we saw some Prong Horn Antelope grazing by the road. We walked to Sunset Point. Fitting! Bryce Canyon was part of a previous family trip in 2004-but we didn’t ever go down into the Canyon. That was on my to-do list for the this trip! The next morning, it was time to run the half marathon! It was Jordan’s very first half marathon, so he was nervous/excited about running. I had signed up for this…
