by Nancy Ball | Jun 26, 2025 | Backpacking
Just got home from our finale BP trip a few days ago. The group named themselves the “Badass Bougie Backpackers”! Here are six (of a few HUNDRED) favorite pics: Learn More About the Summit Sisters
by Nancy Ball | Jan 30, 2024 | Backpacking
Hiking at Cincinnati Nature Center on a balmy, 8 degree morning Sometimes here in the Midwest, January feels like it’s at least 100 days long…and February even longer! Gray skies, drizzle, freezing rain, gray landscape, cold, no sun, gray mood, GRAY GRAY GRAY…...
by Nancy Ball | Aug 22, 2022 | Backpacking
How do you feel about campfires? Most of us campers LOOOVE a good, crackling fire to end the day. How do you get your fire going? Be honest… I’ve seen you throw in a day’s worth of newspaper, a used pizza box, a squirt of charcoal fluid or white gas. How about...
by Nancy Ball | Aug 8, 2022 | Backpacking
Join us August 25th, 6:30pm at Roads Rivers and Trails for a presentation on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica and further details about 2023 trips: https://fb.me/e/2ym1TJW9B The Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica was dubbed “The most bio-intense place on the planet,” by...
by Nancy Ball | Aug 1, 2022 | Backpacking
“I LOVE SUMMIT SISTERS! Having just completed the Beginner’s Backpacking Overnight, I feel so loved and empowered. The four months of training developed muscles, endurance and a community of women who knew each other so well that when I needed assistance or...
by Nancy Ball | Jul 25, 2022 | Backpacking
Tomorrow morning, I hop on a plane bound for Denver, Colorado. My friend Kim and I will be hiking a few more segments of the Colorado Trail, maybe the most beautiful trail I’ve been on in my life! I’ll be soaking up sunshine and tree aura, falling asleep to the night...
