Lincoln National Forest - Crest Trail - White Mountain Wilderness
Three hours of sustained rain is enough to make anyone quit. As soon as we pulled up to the Turkey Canyon Trailhead it started to rain. My friends and I pulled out the rain gear and strapped on our...
View ArticleShould We Care About Trash? - A Guest Post
Guest Post by Daniel Beach of ShareThisAdventure.com a website for sharing outdoor adventures. If you would like to Guest Post on MyLifeOutdoors please see our Guest Posting Guidelines. Just imagine...
View ArticlePoint Sublime - Grand Canyon National Park
What makes a great campsite? Location, solitude, view? I have spent the night at a few amazing campsites. The greatness of each site seems proportional to how difficult it is to reach. Point Sublime...
View ArticleStranded In The Backcountry - Grand Canyon National Park
My family and I were deep in the backcountry on a remote forest service road when my tire light came on. We had been driving on some pretty rugged terrain and I knew my tires were taking a beating. I...
View ArticleGros Piton Summit Hike - St Lucia - The Caribbean
What is the hardest hike you have ever attempted? Mine was a little 2 mile day hike that I thought I would knock out in a couple of hours. Some friends and I were on the Island of St. Lucia doing some...
View ArticleJohnson Lake - Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico
Three alpine lakes in four days. Thats all anyone had to say to convince me to spend a week in New Mexico’s Pecos Wilderness. We had been planning a guys trip since January. Our goal was to hit...
View ArticleHiking Blog Directory - Vote for MyLifeOutdoors!
MyLifeOutdoors may not be the greatest outdoor blog you have ever read, but there is a reason you keep coming back post after post. We try to provide compelling trip reports, useful information, and...
View Article10 Tips for Toddler Trail Training - My WIFE Outdoors
This is the one of several posts contributed by my wife. We hope for this to become a regular segment on MyLifeOutdoors. A valuable resource to women (and their husbands) who love the outdoors (or who,...
View ArticleLake Katharine - Backpacking Pecos WIlderness - New Mexico
This is part two of our 4 day hike in the Pecos Wilderness - New Mexico. Read Part One - Hiking to Lake Johnson. My heart is pounding, my feet ache, and I’m starting to doubt there is a lake up here at...
View ArticleHow To Get Rid of FeedBurner Without Losing Subscribers - For Free
I think its time to leave feedburner. They have been good to me so far. But the thought of losing my RSS subscribers due to apathy on feedbruner’s part worries me too much.Is feedburner going away? Who...
View ArticleSanta Fe Baldy and Lake Katharine - 12,622 feet - Pecos Wilderness New Mexico
This is part three of our 4 day hike in the Pecos Wilderness - New Mexico. Read Part One - Hiking to Lake Johnson. and Part Two - Lake Katharine.What is it about water we find so amazing. We are drawn...
View ArticleFall Colors and The National Park Foundation
As fall progresses and the leaves begin to change color, I have noticed a lot of talk about the best places to view fall color. In Texas these places are rare, as the trees that create the best and...
View ArticleMount Livermore - Summit Hike - Davis Mountain Preserve, Texas
Last weekend the family and I headed back to Mount Livermore to see if we couldn’t make it to the summit this time. If you have been following the blog then you know our last attempt was plagued by...
View ArticleDeuter Kid Comfort II Review- It's Easy To Adventure With Your Child
We recently bought the Deuter Kid Comfort II backpack child carrier. We bought this pack to carry our 6 month old daughter on our frequent hikes. The Kid Comfort two has brought our family closer...
View ArticleHermit's Peak Trail - Santa Fe National Forest - New Mexico
Last weekend I made it back to Hermits Peak with plans to summit. I made sure I had my map (and a backup) just in case I left one in the car. The weather was perfect and nothing was going to keep me...
View ArticleHermits Peak Summit Attempt
Well it has been a long busy summer for me which has had an effect on my blogging. I have had many adventures over the past 3 months and I am looking forward to blogging about them in the coming...
View ArticleMount Livermore - Summit attempt - Davis Mountain Preserve, Texas
For more information please see my newest report on Mount Livermore. After much anticipation I finally made it out to The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Davis Mountain Preserve (DMP) in an attempt to...
View ArticleLighthouse Trail - Palo Duro Canyon, Texas
Saturday morning of our trip to Palo Duro my family and I set out to hike the parks most popular trail to the lighthouse. Palo Duro is the second largest canyon in the United States and the Lighthouse...
View ArticlePalo Duro Canyon - Sunflower Trail
Palo Duro canyon in the Texas Panhandle is the second largest canyon in the United States. The Canyon is close to 120 miles long and 6.2 miles wide on average, but reaches a width of 20 miles wide in...
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