San Francisco Memorial Weekend

May 26th- 31st, 2016 This trip was planned because of the shortened Summer trip due to the Orange County School of Art’s first day of school starting back up a week earlier than anticipated. However, we recently found out that the first day of school was pushed back to when we had intended and so … Read more

Baden Powell Hike

May 21, 2016 We accomplished the old Famous Boy Scout Hike up to the top of Baden Powell. This hike consisted of more switchbacks than any other hike Skylar has ever done. The top is about 2/3 mile straight up but you have to hike roughly 4.5 miles of switchbacks to get there. On this … Read more

Saddleback Mountain

April 30, 2016 Time to embrace the Saddleback hike up Holy Jim Trail. I had been dreading this hike for a long time. Last year we hiked up the Joplin trail to the top of Modjeska Peak which is the back hump of the saddle or the second tallest peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, … Read more

Los Pinos 11 mile hike

April 23, 2016 Los Pinos was the hike chosen to do this day in preparation of the Grand Canyon hike. We had already done this exact same hike last year up in Trabuco Canyon but we had parked about a half mile away before the trail head and this time we got a parking spot … Read more

Six Flags Magic Mountain with Mom and Hannah

March 30th, 2016 We decided to buy Six Flags Season Passes so that we could visit some of the other Six Flags theme parks while traveling across the nation. This was our first visit this year and we got Mom and Hannah to come with us. Hannah’s friend was supposed to come but backed out … Read more

Genesis

It has been a few months, at least, that we have been planning our big adventure that will take place this summer. It all started when Skylar got the idea to do this big adventure after seeing an adventure blog online where a couple decided to visit at least one national park in each state … Read more