Archive for the Hiking Category

Powder and Polygamy - Utah Skiing and More

Watch as Steve meets up with his old softball buddies to take on the slopes surrounding Salt Lake City, Utah.  The area can only be described as….ummm…strange?  Unique?  Or, perhaps we should just admit that Kory said it best upon landing: “Leave it to the Mormons to F%^& up a perfect inter mountain city!”  In [...]

Braving the Red Devils of Panama

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The Jordan Brothers have been all over Latin America, but Panama was one country whose stamp was missing from their well-worn passports.  A dream fishing trip to the Gulf of Chiriqui (to be featured in an upcoming episode of the Junkfish Journal) was the perfect [...]

November Rain

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When most people think of San Diego, they envision lots of sun and sand, mild temperatures, and a bustling downtown.  Just 50 miles east, however, lie the Cleveland National Forest and Rancho Cuyamaca State Park, offering 6,000+ foot peaks, highly variable weather, and even a change of seasons.  [...]

Thin Air on a Budget in the Sierra Nevadas

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Some people say that you can’t really call yourself a hiker unless you’ve broken 10,000 feet. Whether you agree with this or not, if you are passionate about your time in the mountains it can’t help but gnaw at you. So it was with the Jordan Brothers, who decided [...]

Taming the Knife’s Edge

There are a lot of great mountains to hike in New England, but none has a trail as fabled as the legendary “Knife’s Edge” on Maine’s tallest mountain, Katahdin. When you consider the passion the Jordan Brothers have for hiking and adventure and the fact that they vacationed in Acadia National Park [...]

Mount Washington Winter Scramble

The Jordan Brothers first conquered the highest mountain in the Northeast - Mount Washington - on Labor Day, 2006, when they drove from Boston for a day hike for which they were woefully unprepared. On that day, the temperature at the trailhead was 70 degrees. When they reached the summit at 6,288 feet three hours [...]

Scaling Argentina’s Cerro Cristal

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After his trip to Ushuaia, Steve traveled North to the Perrito Moreno Glacier, Lago Roca, and hiked up Cerro Cristal in the rain shadow of the Andes Mountains. From the top, hikers can get a clear view of Chile’s Torres Del Paine park. As always on [...]

Steve at the Bottom of the World

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With Phil stuck at work, Steve returned to his beloved former home of Argentina to visit some of the places he wasn’t able to see while he was a resident. And what better place to start than the bottom of the world? That’s where Steve set [...]

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