Welcome to Late To The Trail
A real-time journey in the wild – better late than never
Whether you’re just discovering the trail or rediscovering yourself, you’re in the right place. Pull up a camp stool and stay a while — there’s a lot of trail ahead and we’re just getting started.
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- Miles and Confidence: Windsor Castle Park Trail with My Girl
There is something about doing hard things with your daughter. Not the kind of hard that involves tears or crisis or the particular drama that mothers and daughters are capable of generating together — we are very good at that kind too, trust me. I mean the quiet kind of hard. The kind where you… - May Slowed Me Down. That’s Okay.
I want to talk about May. Not the pretty parts — the wildflowers and the longer days and the way the trail smells after rain. I mean the real May. The one that showed up at my door with a full suitcase and stayed longer than welcome. It started with work. I went on a… - Meet Salty Beach: How I Started Freeze Drying Food at Home (And Why My Backpack Will Never Be the Same)
Let me introduce you to Salty Beach. Salty Beach is my Harvest Right Large freeze dryer — a 5-tray appliance roughly the size of a mini fridge that lives in my detached garage on a stainless food service table because she requires a dedicated 20-amp plug and does not apologize for it. She came into… - Rose River Falls Loop: My First Real Hike
The original plan had been caverns. Nobody mentioned anything about a 900-foot elevation gain. The Morning After Christine and I are both early risers, and this Sunday morning in our Harrisonburg hotel room was no different. The moment we each realized the other was awake, I whispered “Good morning.” She whispered back “How are your… - A Virginia Caverns Road Trip: Three Caverns in a Day
The original plan was four caverns. We got three. And honestly, we earned every single one of them. The Drive Up Christine and I left early on March 7th, heading west toward the Shenandoah Valley. If you’ve never driven into the mountains from the Virginia coast, let me tell you — the moment the landscape…