I will almost certainly not do a big backpacking trip this year. I got laid off not long after coming back from the Bighorns, and while I found work again pretty quickly—better work, most likely even—my vacation is a bit limited this year because I'm still new at my new company. Just four months, even.
However, since I live in the Midwest, my wife got some local small-hike books for us to do. We'll be doing hikes up near Traverse City and the Sleeping Bear Dunes, we'll be doing hikes at Hocking Hills State Park, and maybe we'll try and catch Cuyahoga National Park too. There will be a lot of smaller hikes too, that we'll do with some friends of ours. And there are places in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that my wife and I would love to visit, like Tahquamenon Falls, or Pictured Rocks (you'll note I did pictured rocks with my son-in-law a year or two ago, but I'd like to go back with my wife at a different time of year.)
I've actually been to Hocking Hills before, although I didn't blog about it. I went with my oldest son about 12 years or so ago, and we did (among other things) rock climbing and rappelling there.
I'm not 100% sure I'm going to blog about most of these hikes, but if I can get some good pictures of them, I might.
Other than that, however, I doubt I'll have much to update this blog with this year. Hopefully in 2024 or 2025 I'll be in a position where I can afford to take time off for hiking in the Rockies again.
