Beaches to Mountains Beaches to Mountains

In this episode featuring our hiking buddy Travis, we talk about our Labor Day trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We discuss our successes, our mistakes, our struggle with starting a camp fire, using the bathroom on the trail, and philosophy of hiking. Join us for a longish but funny conversation about our September adventure!

Beaches to Mountains crew is going backpacking at Great Smoky Mountains National Park this Labor Day! In this episode, we share our excitement and also talk about our preparations for the trip. We talk about planning the route, choosing our gear and food, and overcaffination on the trail.


Art by Grigorii Khralenok: https://www.behance.net/khralenok

Intro and outro music:
Porch Swing Days - faster by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4233-porch-swing-days---faster
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode we talk about hiking trails near Jacksonville. We discuss our adventures in Guana-Tolomato Reserve, Rice Creek Conservation Area, Princess Place Preserve, Jennings State Forest, Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, and Etoniah Creek State Forest. There's also a discussion on which songs bears hate the most and some thoughts on bringing less experienced people on a hike with you.

We are back after a two months break! In this episode we discuss parks that are local to Jacksonville/Duval County. We talk a little bit about the history of each park and share our experiences hiking in each of them. At the end of the episode Stephanie shares some interesting stories involving fire hydrants.

In this episode we continue talking about our adventures on the trip to North GA to see the total solar eclipse in 2017. We talk about hiking the Blood Mountain Loop and DeSoto Falls trail. We also talk about the eclipse itself which was really cool. As in previous episode, we discuss the mistakes we've made when planning this trip and share funny stories about the hike.

In this episode we talk about our adventures going up to North GA to see total solar eclipse in 2017. We go over trip planning and preparation, mistakes we made, and share fun stories about the trip.