Backpacking

Oct
2025

Revisiting the Trail Between The Lakes

Peter

2 nights
28 miles
1,000 ft

Oct
2025

Refrigerator Gulch from Goose Creek Trailhead in Colorado’s Lost Creek Wilderness

Peter and
Samuel

3 nights
28 miles
7,000 ft

Sept
2025

Trekking Spain’s Picos de Europa and Lessons Learned from Attempting a Ring (Anillo) of the Picos de Europa

Peter and
James Mead

9 nights
70 miles
16,000 ft

Feb
2025

Big Bend’s South Rim and Outer Mountain Loop

Peter and
Vance Collins

3 nights
43 miles
9,500 ft

Jan
2025

East Texas’s Trail Between the Lakes, Guide and reflection

Peter

2 nights
28 miles
1,437 ft

Dec
2024

How I balance weight and comfort when backpacking

Nov
2024

Eagle Rock Loop’s High Water Alternate

Peter and
Vance Collins

2 nights
32 miles
4,675 ft

Aug
2024

Elliott’s Ridge Loop in Colorado’s Gore Range

Peter and
Samuel and
Martin
Margulies

3 nights
36 miles
7,000 ft

Nov
2023

Arkansas’s Eagle Rock Loop

Peter and
Samuel

3 nights
29 miles
5,000 ft

June
2022

The Grand Canyon: Bill Hall Trailhead, Thunder River, Tapeats Creek, and Deer Creek

Peter and
Samuel (age 17)

2 nights
23 miles
6,600 ft

Feb
2022

Lone Star Hiking Trail
Grand Loop
(inc. a fire)

Peter and
Vance Collins

2 nights
31 miles
1,325 ft

July
2021

Colorado’s
Collegiate Loop

Peter and
Samuel (age 16) and
Paul Ryan
(2nd half)

11 nights
+ 1 hotel
160 miles
37,000 ft

June
2021

Big Bend’s
Chisos Mountains

Samuel, Brant and Frankie with Peter

3 nights
12 miles
2,400 ft

June
2021

Thru-hiking the Lone Star Hiking Trail in Texas

Peter

6 nights
93 miles
3,576 ft

Dec
2019

Big Bend’s Outer Mountain Loop and Guadalupe Peak

Peter with
Samuel (age 15)

4 nights
+ 1 hotel

June
2019

England’s
Lake District
Peaks

Peter with
Samuel (age 14)

4 nights
+ 1 hostel
87 miles
23,000 ft

Aug
2018

Colorado’s
Capital Creek Circuit and Fools Peak

Peter with
Samuel (age 13)

4 nights
49 miles
12,900 ft
and
2 nights
17 miles
4,500 ft

Dec
2017

Big Bend’s
Outer Mountain Loop

Peter with
Samuel (age 13)

5 nights
53 miles
10,800 ft

Mar
2016

Big Bend
with a pre-teen: Chisos Mountains and Marufo Vega Trail

Peter with
Samuel (age 11)

3 nights

June
2015

Guadalupe Peak
with a pre-teen

Peter with
Samuel (age 10)

2 nights
10 miles
3,000 ft

Jan
1991

Venezuela’s Auyan Tepui

Peter with
Eric, Sonya, and guided by Justiniano

7 nights

Jan
1991

Venezuela’s Sierra Nevada de Merida

Peter with
James Mead and Mark Dutton

5 nights