by Paty | Apr 11, 2025 | Italy, Trail Journals, Via Francigena
Friday, April 11, 2025 Start: Pisa, Italy End: Altopascio Distance Traveled: 26 km (via rail from Pisa to Lucca) Distance Walked: 5 km in Pisa + 18.5 km on the Via Francigena I’d done my best to be quiet when I arrived at the hostel in Pisa after 10 pm...
by Paty | Apr 10, 2025 | Italy, Trail Journals, Via Francigena
Thursday, April 10, 2025 Start: Edinburgh, Scotland End: Pisa, Italy Distance Traveled: 1,494 miles (via rail, bus, and airplane) Before I could begin my trek on the Via Francigena, I had to get from my home in the Pacific Northwest US to Europe. Luckily, my sister...
by Paty | Mar 11, 2025 | Arizona High Points, Gear
I recently talked about desert hiking gear with Lauren Toner on the Trail Talk Highpointing podcast. We both love hiking in the Southwest, and episode 69 of the podcast was all about my hiking and highpointing adventures throughout the Grand Canyon State. One of the...
by Paty | Feb 23, 2025 | Arizona High Points, Day Hikes, Southwest US
Arizona County HP: #6 Difficulty: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (on a scale of 4) Summit Elevation: 9,453 feet Mountain Range: Santa Rita Mountains Ancestral Lands: O’odham Jewed, Sabaipuri, Tohono O’odham, Hohokam PLANNING DETAILS...
by Paty | Jan 7, 2025 | Books
Welcome to my sixth annual list of outdoor book recommendations. Each year, I consume dozens and dozens of books. Some are fiction. Others are memoirs. And quite a few of them are books about the outdoors. While my book tastes vary based on my mood, nothing helps me...
by Paty | Sep 22, 2024 | Colorado Trail, Rockies, Trail Journals
Mile for mile, the Colorado Trail was one of my favorite high-altitude adventures. But the elevation wasn’t the only notable thing about this epic long-distance trail. As I hiked from Denver to Durango in 2024, I tried my best to keep track of many of the...
