One of this year’s resolutions is to get 150 people who have not hiked recently (or at all) onto the trail with me. If you hike with me this year, you get one of these nifty 1.5″ circular stickers that I designed. They are free and go great on any notebook, guidebook, or forehead. The [...]

Hello!  My name is Kolby and welcome to my site.  There isn’t much to see here yet, I admit- but things should be a hoppin’ in no time.  After all, I need to hike 500 miles this year and that’s a lot of photos to post! Read over the About page to get an quick [...]

An incredible hike on a volcano within a volcano. One of the greatest things about Bend, Oregon is the amount of activities one can do within a short drive of town. All of the hikes my parents and I have done in the last six days (hikes #30-36) were within an hour’s drive from town. [...]

2009 was quite a benchmark year for me. I completed my May resolution of hiking 100 times before the end of the year. In doing so, I hiked 417 trail miles and lost 25 pounds. When I tell people about the accomplishment, many follow up with, “So what’s next? What are you going to do [...]