Hoop Trek Travel

After nearly a week of sport climbing in Wild Iris and a lifetime’s worth of Happy Hours at the Lander Bar, we thought it was about time for some exercise – time for some real alpine adventure. We prepared ourselves for an hour plus of core shaking, brain rattling washboard dirt road driving to get [...]

Welcome to HoopTrekTravel – my new travel site dedicated to a life filled with ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, and HOOPING. Please jump right in and take a look at my American Adventure lifelist and hopefully you will be inspired to pen your own.  Found out why the name HoopTrekTravel and learn a little more about the Hoop [...]

I am up at 4:30 am this morning stiff and creaky as hell – it is so stuffy in this place I can’t breathe.  Today is the first morning waking inside after 2 weeks in the tent. I turn on the window air conditioner for some air and to drown out the noises of the [...]

I had planned on launching this blog a good month ago but I could not for the life of me come up with a darned name for the thing. I have another blog, the Dirtbag Writer, that I have been devoting to my journey from cube dweller to creative lifer, but I wanted to have [...]

South Canyon Springs is an interesting alternative to the commercial hot springs in the Glenwood Springs area.  South Canyon Hot Springs consists of two small hippy pools located up on a hillside with great views of the surrounding mountains.  We visited the springs in June of 2009 and found only one of the two pots [...]

To quote Gwen Bell, “When you write your goals the whole world opens up in front of you.”  I so agree.  It is amazing how easy it is to lose track of your goals and dreams when you are occupied with daily life and it is even more amazing how powerful your dreams become once [...]

Norris Hot Springs, Water of the Gods is a trippy little commercial hot spring about a half hour drive outside of Bozeman, Montana. The 30 x 40 foot pool was super clean and at 106 degrees F the pool was perfect for winter soaking . Wood planks line the pool and the artesian spring bubbles [...]