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You may have found a reference to videos in Nancy’s book, How to Poop in the Woods. You can watch those here, and be sure to find us on YouTube. If you want to live vicariously through video, be our guest! We also offer training on a variety of topics related to hiking, camping, and backpacking.

Backpacking, hiking, nature, adventure, empowering women

by Nancy Ball | Sep 5, 2022 | Summit Trek & Travel

This is a story about being an “older” woman backpacking that I’ve been mulling over for a while. This spring, three of my backpacking friends and I did a glamping/hiking trip to Charit Creek in Big South Fork Tennessee. We stayed in one of the tiny, one-room rustic...

The Colorado Trail, Timberline to Silver Creek

by Nancy Ball | Aug 29, 2022 | Nature

What’s so special about the Colorado Trail? For starters, it traverses parts of 6 national forests, 6national wilderness areas, 5 river systems, and 8 mountain ranges! At 500 miles in length, it takes atleast a month to hike it end to end; double that if you like to...

Hack of the Month

by Nancy Ball | Aug 22, 2022 | Backpacking

Be honest…how do you start your campfires?

Oh! The Osa!

by Nancy Ball | Aug 21, 2022 | Trips

I love to travel. I love seeing new places, meeting new people, learning about different cultures… and I especially love seeing unspoiled mountains, rivers, oceans, forests, jungles, deserts, and every other ecosystem found in our natural world. Seeing the world...