Tom

October 26 to October 28, 2012 11 miles 0 feet gained 2 nights

I got to head up to my favorite place, the Superior Hiking Trail, recently with a couple other hammock forum members. We went for a quick weekend trip to the castle danger area. Got there around 7:30pm on Friday night and got in some good night hiking. CryOTheWild and BigFatSellOut both over dressed and soon had to strip some layers as the first mile or so i...

August 1 to August 3, 2012 26.5 miles 0 feet gained 2 nights

Hiked from Finland MN south to Beaver Bay with two buddies and had a blast. After the hike we biked about 20 miles back to our vehicles.

June 8 to June 10, 2012 23.5 miles 0 feet gained 2 nights

I left my house around 1pm and drove through some beautiful farmland on my way to the trailhead. I arrived at the North Country Trail trailhead in Solon Springs, WI about two hours later. After about a mile of walking I realized that I had probably taken the wrong trail, so I called CryotheWild from the forums. After talking with him I decided that I indeed ...

May 13 to May 15, 2012 55 miles 500 feet gained 2 nights

This was supposed to be a 3 night 4 day trip but we got ambitious when we got to our campsite on day two and decided to keep hiking. Ended up doing just over 21 miles that day and total we did 55 miles which included some biking.

April 27 to April 29, 2012 22 miles 250 feet gained 2 nights

Took my wife out for her first backpacking trip. We 22 miles over 2 nights and 3 days...although most of the miles were on the 2nd and 3rd days because we got to the trail late on day one and hiked in a mile to the campsite. Shared the campsites both nights and on night two met some really cool guys who were all marines. Great time and the wife had a lot of ...

March 30 to April 1, 2012 7.5 miles 250 feet gained 2 nights

Me and Brandon drove up to tettegouche state spark to meet up with Ben and Amber at the campsite. It was super windy and rainy that first night. Brandon and I hung our hammocks about 15 feet from the cliff looking over lake superior! The next day we hit the trail and it was slow going through the wet and slippery snow. When we stopped for lunch (got a late s...