lonely fire

So, during the times that I’ve been able to travel in the past few years, I’ve always made a point to do something outdoorsy and camper-like; be it bummin around Arches, drinking beers on the Craters of the Moon, sleeping under the stars in Spearfish, hiking around Rainier, or chillin with ponies at Assateague, etc. But I hardly ever manage to do these types of things around Pittsburgh…..

So I’ve been planning this massive post with info on all the local hiking trails just outside of town, to kind of spur along my own intentions of seeing many of these places for myself… And whilst doing some internetting for good sites, lo and behold, at the beginning of June, our good friends at the Carnegie Library already went ahead and compiled a comprehensive list of hiking trails in Western PA…. So dig in! Who knows, maybe you’ll even run into Brangelina pettin the wild cthulu’s mane at Ohiopyle….

And one last note about summertime and tunes- gotta say, this time of year makes me want to listen to nothing but CCR and the Rolling Stones (Exile on Main St. in particular). When I was 13, Chronicle was one of the first albums I ever bought with my own money (on cassette no less!), so all the green & humidity of Pgh in the summer just gets me all nostalgic….