Hoop Trek Travel

On our first morning in Hanalei, we awoke to the sound of someone not so pleasantly knocking on our tent at 6am. I covered myself with a blanket and stuck my head out of the tent still cloudy from too many Longboard Lagers the night before, “Say huh?” The man dressed in park ranger garb [...]

In honor of my Moab, Arches & Canyonlands iPhone app released on iTunes last week, I wanted to share some of my favorite spots in Moab. To quote Ed Abbey, “This is the most beautiful place on Earth.” These lands have captured my soul like no other place on Earth and I hope you can [...]

I am a total defensive pessimist meaning I spend a lot of time worrying about all the things that can go wrong in any given situation.  This may sounds like a pretty crappy way to live (unless you too have a defensive pessimist qualities), but it is actually quite adaptive. In most cases, imagining the [...]

Many travel bloggers have been reviewing boutique hotels and luxurious lodges on their blogs lately so I thought it would be fun if I started reviewing um some of the fabulous “eco-lodges” that I have been staying in.  Welcome to my new series… um fabulous nature lodges. Resting alongside the Popo Aggie River in a [...]

During the Summer Outdoor Retailer Show earlier this month I caught an early peak of the trailer for 127 Hours, an upcoming film based on the true story of Aron Ralston.  In May of 2003, Ralston found himself pinned by a boulder while traveling solo in a remote Utah slot canyon.  He was trapped for [...]

Like most western states, Idaho has a ton of non-commercial, rustic hot springs on public lands.  According to the folks at Hot Springs Enthusiast, Idaho has some 232 hot springs, which is more than any other state in the US.  Many of these hot springs are concentrated along the Salmon River in the central part [...]

Located at the end of Highway 270 on the Big Island of Hawaii lies the gorgeous and pristine Pololu Valley.  Once inhabited by Native Hawaiians, the valley is now deserted except for a herd of cattle and a few stray hippies.  Pololu is the northernmost of a chain of nearly inaccessible valleys stretching the northwestern [...]

The air temperature was 103 degrees and we were about to step into a 104-degree pool. We were taking the day off from climbing at Wild Iris near Lander, WY and wound up at Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis.  We heard they had free showers and it had been… well I don’t dare tell [...]

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 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 [...]