by Jessica | Apr 28, 2024 | Body Positivity, Getting Started, Good Things To Know, New To Hiking
In July of 2022, I came to the mountains and hiked these trails solo, which my soul needed. It was the first time in my adult life that I muted the expectations of everyone else and started to listen to what my needs and expectations were. How can I show up as the...
by Jessica | Dec 18, 2023 | Getting Started, Good Things To Know, New To Hiking, Winter Hiking
What’s better than hiking? Winter hiking. This is just my opinion. The scenery is beautiful in the summer but magnificent in the winter. This blog post is for the beginner out there without much to any experience. I will give you great resources for more...
by Jessica | Sep 24, 2023 | Getting Started, New To Hiking
When I started hiking, I came off two years of being COMPLETELY sedentary. Like, 400-700 steps a day. Getting into mountain hiking was intimidating because the only experience I had in the last five years before was Azure Mountain. And that was certainly NOT easy. I...
by Jessica | Aug 1, 2023 | Getting Started, New To Hiking
Can you really go from being sedentary to climbing high peaks within a year? The answer is YES! Yes, you can. It takes a lot of time, dedication, commitment, and mental and physical strength, but it CAN be done. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, I bottomed out. I...
by Jessica | Jul 16, 2023 | High Peaks
When I started this hiking journey, there was no intention to get into hiking the high peaks. Or so went the story until the mountains called. Yesterday, my hiking partner Chelle and I embarked on one of our longest hikes to date, Giant and Rocky Peak Ridge,...