My travel resume

My travel resume so far:

2024:

• 5 trips with guests - 2 to the Black Hills, 2 to the Badlands, one to the Desert Southwest (Grand Canyon, Zion, Horseshoe Bend, Lake Powell, Sedona)

• Family trip to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks

• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City with the Lincoln High School Marching Band

• Black Elk Peak reconnaissance trip with my son Ivan in April.

2023: First summer of 605 Adventure!

• 4 Trips with guests - three to the Black Hills, one to Badlands National Park

• Havasupai with Marlea!

• Family backpacking in the Black Hills - French Creek

• Solo to Colorado

  • Great Sand Dunes National Park

  • Conundrum Hot Spring

  • Manitou Incline

  • Whitewater rafting

  • Maroon Bells

2022 

• Road trip with Matt

  • Yosemite!

    • Yosemite Valley

    • 4-mile trail to Glacier Point 

    • Mist Trail to Half Dome!

  • Capitol Reef National Park

  • Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument 

    • Calf Creek Falls

  • Bryce Canyon National Park

  • Zion National Park

  • Death Valley National Park

  • Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

• Arizona with Marlea!

  • • Sedona

      1. Cathedral Rock

      2. Bell Rock

      3. Devil's Bridge

      4. Red Rock Crossing

      5. Sugarloaf Mountain 

    • Oak Creek Canyon

    • Slide Rock State Park

    • Monument Valley

    • Goosenecks State Park

    • Moki Dugway

    • Muley Point

• Tough Mudder - MN

• Black Hills family trip

  • Wall Drug

  • Sylvan Lake

  • Legion Lake

  • French Creek

  • Mammoth Site

  • Stockade Lake

  • Cascade Falls

  • Evan's Plunge

  • Wind Cave and Custer State Park

  • Wildlife loop

• Camping at Bear Head Lake, MN family trip 

• Utah family trip 

  • Moab, UT

    • Hidden Valley

    • Corona Arch

    • Mill Creek 

  • Arches National Park

    • Delicate Arch

    • Balanced Rock

    • Double Arch

    • Windows

    • Fiery Furnace

  • Great Sand Dunes National Park

  • Mesa Verde National Park

 2021

• Solo to Florida

  • Everglades National Park

  • Florida keys 

  • Dry Tortugas National Park 

  • Key West

• Family trip to Colorado

  • Colorado Springs 

  • Garden of the Gods 

  • Great Sand Dunes National Park

  • Mount Princeton Hot Springs

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

  • Bear Lake - Flathead Mountain sunrise

  • Estes Park

• Gooseberry State Park, MN family trip

• Two nights solo camping in Minnesota

2020    

• Backpacking Badlands National Park to Deer Haven with kids 

• Black Hills family trip

• Desert Southwest with Marlea

  • Buckskin Gulch

  • South Kaibab trail in Grand Canyon

  • Sedona, AZ

  • Zion Narrows

  • Horseshoe Bend

• Road trip to Colorado with Matt

  • Wrestled Alligators at Colorado Gators!

  • Camped in Great Sand Dunes National Park

  • Rocky Mountain National Park. 

  • Black Hills, Custer, Wind Cave, Iron Mountain Rd, Badlands.

 2019

• Black Hills family trip

  • Storybook Island

  • Dinosaur Hill

  • Wall Drug

  • Stockade Lake

  • Custer State Park

• Hawaii with Marlea!

  • Olomana (Three Peaks) Trail

  • Awaawapuhi Trail

  • Camped on the beach 2 nights on Kauai at Salt Pond Park and Polihale beach

  • Queen's Bath

  • Maunawili Trail to waterfall and swimming hole

• Road trip with kids

  • Canyonlands National Park

    •  Shafer Canyon trail

  • Arches National Park

    • Fiery Furnace

  • Great Sand Dunes National Park

  • Colorado Gators

2018 

• Southwest solo

  • Angel's Landing and The Narrows in Zion National Park

  • Horseshoe Bend

  • Antelope Canyon

  • Grand Canyon National Park hike Rim-to-Rim

  • Sunrise at Cape Royal

• Road trip with kids

  • Wind Cave National Park

  • Grand Teton National Park

  • Yellowstone National Park

  • Devils Tower National Monument

2017 

• Big Horn Mountains with Marlea

• Black Hills family trip 

• Backpacking in Badlands National Park with kids 

2016

• Yellowstone backpacking with Marlea

• Gooseberry State Park family trip

2015

Black Hills family trip

Yellowstone solo

• Slough Creek

• Pebble Creek

• Hayden Valley

• Lamar Valley

• Cascade Lake

• Lower Yellowstone Falls and Inspiration Point

2014 

Black Hills backcountry solo 

• Custer State Park 

• Wind Cave National Park

2008 - Hawaii Honeymoon!

• Kalalau Trail to Hanakapiai Beach

• Kalalau overlook

• Waimeia Canyon

2006 - California

2005 - Poland

2005 - Centennial Trail thru-hike

2005 - Japan and Hawaii (Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Tokyo, Waikiki, Diamond Head)

2004 - Poland (Auschwitz)

2003 - DCI (Drum Corps International) Tour - Eastern and Southern US

2002 - Summer job at Newton Hills State Park, southeast South Dakota

2001 - DCI (Drum Corps International) tour - Eastern and Southern US

2000 - Macy’s Parade, New York City, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, Niagara Falls

1996 - Oregon Coast, Utah, Golden Spike, Devil’s Tower, Little Big Horn Battlefield

...and many other family trips!  :-)