Tag Archives: waterfalls

5 of our favorite summer hikes with water

A summer hike isn’t a summer hike unless it includes water, the more water, the better. And the more water in more forms, better still.

Forms? 

You know, the 5 major forms of mountain water:

  1. Mountain pool form
  2. Wading form
  3. Hiking in form
  4. Short Hike In form
  5. Falling form

Today, we share one of our favorites in each of these 5 categories. And the envelopes, please … read more

An August adventure (or four) to save your summer

Every year, it’s the same thing. Memorial Day arrives with great expectations for an adventurous summer. Then, suddenly, it’s August and that longed-for adventure has not yet happened.

Despair not!

We’ve got some great adventures planned for August that will salvage the summer and then some. Put on your adventure face, it’s time to get out and play! read more

90 Second Escape: Cool Mountain Adventure

Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb. read more

90 Second Escape: Hot Weather, Cool Water Hiking

Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb. read more