IMG_1923 Welcome to my blog! I'm using a new web host and am able to get a blog back in action! Please have some patience with this site. It will take me some time to get used to all of the features and how to tweak them. I'm looking forward to sharing photo tips and reports from some of my travels. For most of you that don't know me, I am a photographer/hiker and backpacker. I love to backpack and take photos that are off of the beaten path of everyday life.  I do most of my backpacking in North Carolina, my home base state, and I love the Smoky Mountains. On my bucket list of things to do is to visit all of the state parks in North Carolina and hike the Appalachian Trail that goes through North Carolina. I love waterfalls and big overlooks of the mountains. I am looking forward to taking you with me on my journeys, photographing my adventures with tips and tricks thrown in for good measure!  

This photograph is of me on top of Grandfather Mountain with the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in 1978. After this photo was taken, while I was hiking on the trail later in the day, I found a guy that didn't quite look like a hiker and started up a conversation with him. I came to find out that he was the son of the pilot who was flying the plane that crashed. I found out that his father had perished in the crash, so I didn't ask too many more questions. He wanted to show some of his relatives the wreckage, but had incorrectly marked the location on his map. I pointed him in the right direction, and hopefully he found his father's plane. Small world, huh?