A Long Summer's Walk - The Pacific Crest Trail wanders through the States of California, Oregon and Washington, between Campo on the Mexican border and Manning Park at the Canadian border. Over its course, it spans a distance of over 2650 miles.

In April 2000, Ron (a.k.a. Fallingwater) began his Millennium Hike at the Mexican border. After 700 miles, Brandon (formerly known as Lucky 13, but now known as Drip) joined Ron for the summer months, and together they hiked 1500 miles. When Brandon returned home for his senior year of high school, Ron continued his trek, reaching Canada in mid September.

These pages attempt to convey a small semblance of what life is like along the Pacific Crest Trail - the people met, obstacles overcome, success and failures.

A Summer's Sojourn chronicles our 20th Anniversary return to the Appalachian Trail during the summer of 1997.

Twenty years after our 1977 thru-hike, we realized we were long overdue for a new adventure. Careers, a teenager, a mortgage, and all the trappings that go along with these things were taking their toll.

We returned to the AT with our son, Brandon, who was 13 at the time. We each assumed a new personna in the form of a trail name, and as Fallingwater, Red Rainbow and Lucky 13, we embarked on a section-hike of over 700 miles of the trail.

An Appalachian Adventure is the one that started it all for us! Read the journals of Ron and Linda's thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.

In June 1977 we started hiking the Appalachian Trail at Mt. Katahdin in Maine, and finished up four and a half months later at Springer Mountain in Georgia. These journals chronicle our 2100 mile hike.