A New Blog is Born

This blog is inspired by a blog I kept in 2013 in which I documented a challenge I made for myself to walk 80 miles in 20 days while on vacation to my hometown of Warren, PA. At that time, I was a music teacher in Houston, TX, and only visited Pennsylvania in the summers. 

Fast forward 12 years, and my husband and I are now living back in our hometown, and I am teaching music here. Hiking has become a huge part of my leisure and fitness activities, especially in the summer. A highlight of my hiking experience has been the Allegheny 100 Challenge, an event in which hikers can choose to hike 25, 50, 75, or 100 miles throughout the first weekend in June. Part of beginning to hike now is my preparation to complete that challenge for the 5th consecutive year.

So, on this day, March 17, I took my first hike of the season. As I was hiking, I saw some interesting things that I felt like sharing with people, and I reminisced about my old blog. I decided to begin a new blog to document all of the hiking I plan to do in 2025. While the purpose of the 2013 blog was to fulfill my personal challenge of walking 80 miles in 20 days, the purpose of this new blog will simply be to take you hiking with me and see some of the most beautiful land in the country here in northwest Pennsylvania! (Although, there will be some hiking in New York State, too!)