Summit Date July 31st, around 6:30 am Party Ryan Cragun & Tom Triplett (plus our guides – Travis and Matt – and two other clients – Drew Herdener and Olivier…
Category: hiking
hiking trips
Salkantay Trek
For my work, a colleague and I decided to propose a new travel study course that would involve a combination of our interests – sociology of sport (hiking, specifically) and…
Greece – Mount Olympus
Traveling all the way to Greece for a week-long colloquium for work without taking any time to do some touristy stuff seemed like a waste of a flight across the…
Greece Trip – Metochi
Thanks to my work on nonreligion and atheism, I was invited to participate in a week-long colloquium (May 13th through May 20th) in Greece by LeRon Shults in which I would…
NY-Mount Marcy
Summit Date August 12, 2017 (around 11:00 am) Party Ryan Cragun, Mark Woolley, Tom Triplett Trip Report In my big swing across the US that allowed me to complete most…
Triple Falls Trail – Dupont Forest, North Carolina
I was attending a conference in Asheville, NC, and had half of a day free. Rather than stay cooped up in my hotel, and knowing there were hills in the…
Hiking in Silver Springs State Park
I was invited to give a presentation to a freethought group in Ocala and thought it might be a good opportunity to explore a little more of Florida. I looked…
Half Dome – Yosemite National Park
I was in Northern California on a speaking tour but had a couple of days while I was there that I didn’t have any speaking engagements. I had combined the…
Point Lobos, California Hike
While on a book speaking tour in California, I had a few days where I didn’t have any talks. One one of those days, while I was staying in Santa…
OR-Mt. Hood
Summit Date May 25th, 2016, around 7:00 am Party Ryan Cragun & Tom Triplett Trip Report For the previous 45 highpoints I had done, my wife had expressed some concerns,…