Two Boots Off Road

weekend hikes · bad maps · good ridgelines

Cobbler Ridge loop in fog — 14 km, one wrong turn

2026-09-07
↑ 620 m · 5h40 · solo

The trail marker at km 9 was removed sometime this summer, and the "obvious" social trail is not obvious. Full bailout story plus three photos of what fog does to a landscape you thought you knew.

The gear list I actually keep, after two years of churn

2026-07-19
reading: 7 min

Everything I stopped buying, and the six items I replaced twice. Includes the cheap thing that beat the expensive thing, because of course it did.

Two-dayer on the Meridian with my nephew (age 9, fitter than me)

2026-05-30
↑ 480 m · overnight · 2 hikers

Rules for hiking with a nine-year-old: carry their snacks as yours, never say "almost there", and let them navigate at every junction. Works out better than my own pace strategy.