Love on the Trail

We were very grateful and lucky to be featured in an Outside Magazine article all about finding and celebrating love on the trail. What It’s Like to Fall in Love on a Long Hike is a great look into love on the trail from several different couples, including us!

We’ve lost track of all the places we’ve lived since that late night on March 15th in 1997, or of just all that we’ve done, but we know that there’s been one constant — and that’s us. Don’t let us try to fool you and say that in 24 years there haven’t been rough patches, because there sure have been, but the two of us have worked hard to always ensure that we stay front and center in each other’s’ minds, and that we don’t forget that even though we think after all these years we can read each other’s minds, we still need to communicate a lot!

It’s easy though to lose site of those simple things and that’s where I think something like this article in Outside Magazine helps remind us what’s important. We’ve always valued our relationship and our time together, but hiking helps remove all that extraneous noise in the world and since we’ve both really gotten into hiking as part of our life, just not as an activity, it really has shown us both that our quality time, our time spent together is what makes celebrating a milestone like 24 years or being included in a story about trail love, really mean something.

Hike On!