What we’re about
Where exploration begins
Are you looking for fun, adventurous guys and gals to enjoy the great outdoors with? Join us! Bring a friend, bring a spouse or just come as is...let us be a trail guide for your outdoor adventures.
Here, we're all about backpacking...primitive camping in the wild. Our goal is to enjoy the great outdoors from a hands on perspective.
The last couple of years we've spent a large amount of time blazing paths along Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. We're continually amazed at how gorgeous and unique the forests are. Every hike is a new adventure. We've completed over 2400 miles of Virginia trails plus neighboring states and want to see more. Backpacking is the best way to continue to find new areas, explore new trail systems, embrace new challenges.
We use established maps and make our own. Use established, under-used and neglected trails to explore new areas. Have even been known to bushwhack with glee. We want to bring the distant, close. Sunrises, sunsets, vistas and hollows, balds and falls. Rain or shine, warm or cold. We want to continue to explore Virginia...as well as expanding into WV, NC, TN and KY.
A lot of care goes into the trips as a whole. But the trip itself will determine where we really go. The treks revolve around one core need...water. Everything else will fall into place. Adventure doesn't always follow plan and being able to adapt allows the fun to continue. We're carrying food & shelter, to be eaten and pitched without impact. If you need more structure than that...you may not enjoy the kind of freedom we embark on.
Hundreds of hikes we've completed and no one has been eaten by a bear or been hauled away by rangers. Come out with us and the percentages are very good that you'll return no worse for wear, ha.
Could use some other leaders. If you'd like to organize trips to share places you specifically want to see...let's meetup and do it!