- October 15, 2017
- 28 photos
Apparently making up for lost time now, my neighbor Tony sends out word of another autumn ride, this time to the south. I RSVP in the positive once I’ve secured permission from the boss.
- September 27, 2017
- 23 photos
Our motorcycles maybe thought we’d retired but no, the hiatus is over. My neighbor Tony and I pull out the bikes to spend a day riding narrow trails through evergreen Idaho mountains.
- September 16, 2017
- 26 photos
Somehow it’s me and four ladies camping high in the Idaho mountains, two of them for the first time.
- August 30, 2017
- 32 photos and a video
On the third and fourth days of our annual Brother Ride, we leave the beautiful campsite along the shore of high mountain Big Trinity Lake with plans to descend to historic Atlanta, Idaho, then venture on trails unknown to camp along the North Fork of the Boise River before returning home.
- August 29, 2017
- 29 photos and a video
On the second day of our tenth annual ride, my brothers and I descend from Lava Mountain for gas before heading deeper into the mountains. At least that’s the plan. Mountains have a way of messing with plans.
- August 28, 2017
- 40 photos and a video
The four of us — my brothers minus Jesse, Kayla’s boyfriend Nick and I — ride northeast from Boise to rise above the desert in search of solitude along narrow mountain paths.
- August 20, 2017
- 47 photos
Against prevailing wisdom, we set a course for a ridge high above Stanley to sleep then sit in observation of the celestial mating.
- August 6, 2017
- 28 photos
Finally. I’ve been telling Kayla’s Polish boyfriend Nick that we’d ride for more than a year now. This may be his last summer in America for a while so it had to happen. We did the quick, sort of standard loop along the backside of the Boise Ridge, Humpty and Daggett. It was a nice workout.
- July 4, 2017
- 15 photos
Four guys in a Jeep drove up a hill and nothing got broke.
- June 18, 2017
- 32 photos
Wherein we finally demonstrate for Alexis that Boise is French and that not all of my shortcuts are … oh, wait, nevermind.
- June 5, 2017
- 19 photos
School has only been out a day and already “I’m bored” complaints are buzzing around the house like flies. Happily, we’re close to the river and foothills so we can always hop on our bikes or set out on foot from home for a bit of perspective.
- May 27, 2017
- 25 photos
More trips with Europeans: Nick from Poland joins us for an exciting adventure to one of Idaho’s frontier towns.
- April 23, 2017
- 49 photos
We head to the hills just outside of town for a little walk through murder, political intrigue and free gold along Five Mile Creek.
- March 31, 2017
- 38 photos
Hunter is at his dad’s, Alexis is at his next host family and Jessica is visiting her grandma in Arizona this week. It’s just Brenna and me, which means there will be camping.
- March 20, 2017
- 37 photos
For my first winter retreat with Gaia GPS, we ski and snowshoe on record Sierra Nevada snowpack to spend two nights in a hut at 8,000 feet. It’s bound to be good team building.
- March 11, 2017
- 28 photos
We head out from home on foot to survey flooding that, like our winter snow, is the highest in many years.
- February 12, 2017
- 43 photos
The year’s first stretch of sunshine invites us to spend a day exploring terrain popular a century ago and millennia ago in an unassuming desert canyon.