Guest Posts | blissful hiker

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone

The Tick and Mosquito Project teaches us how to NOT get Lyme Disease this season.

My mother makes an appearance sharing a tiny vignette, a clue to my hiking passion.

Free soloing mountain climber Alex Honnold has a lot to teach about conquering out biggest goals.

On backpacking trips, day two always sucks and pretty much for the same reasons.

A pee rag enables a female hiker to get the job done and focus on being her badass self.

The benefit of pacing a long distance thru-hike more slowly is to be able to increase bliss.

Lonnie Dupre knows grueling expeditions that need planning to implement and says surviving Covid is a lot the same.

To stay sane during a pandemic, find ways to stay active says a very active person herself under quarantine restrictions.

The pandemic and its shelter-at-home mandates are pushing people to walk as never before in memory.

The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have

Camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized,