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Beach Camping at Lake Powell

Although I am now getting around to write about this trip, we took this trip back in late October/early November of last year. Yep, I got some catching up to do. This is what happens when you are adventuring faster than you can write about them. Not a bad problem to have. Road Trip to

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Birthday Hike

My baby turned 6 exactly a week go! I took a day off from work so we can celebrate it with our friends in the mountains. We hiked to one of our favorite peaks in the Angeles National Forest. Josephine Peak. We tried a new route from the Colby Canyon trailhead and loved it! This is

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Glamping to Solo Camping

Glamping to Solo Camping

Let’s talk about camping. Camping was merely something I’d like to try until the beginning of this year. Our glamping trip in April ignited the fire. I felt like we might actually like it if we tried. After our try-out overnight camping trip in May proved my hunch was right, camping quickly became another way for

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Big Pine Lakes

Since my camping trip to Eastern Sierra this summer, I’ve been wanting to go back to Big Pine to finish the hike we started but never finished. I made an overnight trip plan with my sister to do this hike together in September. Bishop is located 266.6 miles (428.9 km) north of Los Angeles. We arrived at

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Mt Waterman & Cooper Canyon Falls

Best dog-friendly hikes in Southern California

I’ve wanted to hike Cooper Canyon Falls for a while but the hike being only 3 miles, I couldn’t justify 3 hours of driving. Then I discovered that our friends Mikako and Gin hadn’t hiked Mt Waterman. Since they are next to each other, we decided to tackle both on the same day together. We

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