Banff Day 2 - Lake Morraine to Eiffel Lake

Today we hiked from Lake Morraine to Eiffel Lake. It was a trail with a lot of solitude and raw, big nature. I got scared over a couple of the rock scrambles toward the end, but overall this was an awesome half-day hike!

Banff National Park Day 1 - Lake Louise to Six Glaciers

We love Banff National Park! We are camping by Lake Louise and hiking in the general vicinity. Today we hiked the Six Glacier Plains trail and swung by Mirror Lake on the way back. We stopped for some raspberryade at a chalet that is tucked away in the top right corner of the picture directly above!

Grande Cache, Alberta - Day 1

Adam is currently running The Canadian Death Race, a 125K race that passes over three mountain summits. He is currently about half-way done and says it is the toughest trail race that he has ever run!

I, on the other hand, well.... I just am enjoying waiting on my man! It's pretty exciting when he finally pulls into an aid station!

Montana Day 2 - Iceberg Lake

On our second full day in Montana, we woke up pretty early to head with a ranger out to Iceberg Lake (10 mile round trip hike). This was an outstanding hike in the Many Glacier region and the lake at the end was breathtaking! We saw one glacier, two mountain goats and one bear and lots of Columbian squirrels as we were hiking.

Montana Day 1 - St. Mary & St. Elizabeth Falls

We arrived in Montana in the evening after a full day's drive, but were pleasantly surprised that it stayed light quite late! We woke up the next day at a leisurely pace and then hike St. Mary and St. Virginia Falls.

Wyoming with Jadon & Audrey

Our northern-bound (think: cool weather!) road trip has been a great success so far! We are so grateful that our Crown Vic with almost 300K miles has been really faithful to us.

Our first stop was in Kemmerer, WY to visit Jadon and Audrey Ross. We took a great hike in the hill country surrounding this awesome town. The altitude was new to me, but the views were super rewarding!

"When Helping Hurts" Visual Summary

One Year Anniversary!

I know that one year of marriage is just a small step in the journey of lifelong love, but it still seems so significant! We celebrated fairly simply with a nice home-cooked meal and a re-watch of our wedding day video, but we are anticipating our upcoming vacation in the northern country where we will have time to really re-engage and properly celebrate one year of marriage!

Go Cabin B!

One of the huge highlights of my summer was counseling senior high campers at Camp Quaker Haven in June. Abby Hutson and I had such an awesome cabin and we loved the girls in our cabin so much! I think the pictures attest to some of the incredible group bonding that took place!

Camp Quaker Haven - Guys Cabins!

Adam counseled both senior and junior high camps this year at Camp Quaker Haven! I thought the very most awesome thing was that my little brother Caleb was able to fly out from New York to be in Adam's junior high camp cabin!