• Exploring the Zugspitze Circuit

    A multi-day hike below Germany’s Highest Peak The train slowed and finally lurched to a late afternoon halt in Mittenwald, a small town between huge mountain peaks on the German-Austrian…

    Los Alamos Canyon Loop Hike

    Los Alamos Canyon is one of many long canyons that cut down from the eastern slope of the Jemez Mountains…

    Beery Trails in Milwaukee

    Milwaukee’s Beery Past There is no doubt of Milwaukee’s status as one of the USA’s most venerable beer cities.  Although…

    El Cajete Three Ways

    El Cajete translates as something like “shallow bowl” and you can’t argue with that name for this isolated feature within…

    Sanchez Falls Hike

    Sanchez Falls is a 100-foot waterfall in a remote desert canyon that very few people have ever heard of.  As…

    Bike Trails and Beers in Grand Rapids

    A friend told me that Grand Rapids would be a good place to visit for biking and beers and my…

    The Other Cruces

    Beer Hiking & Other Explorations in the Cruces Basin Wilderness Every time I told someone I was going to check…

    The Hills Are Alive … in Vermont

    Experience a couple of rugged hikes, a few local beers to follow the hikes up, and throw in a dollop…

    A Hike and Some Brews in Helena

    Roadtripping around Montana, the capital city of Helena came onto my radar.  I’m always on the lookout for a place…

    Beery Nuremberg

    Nuremberg (Nürnberg or Nuernberg in German) is the second-largest city in Bavaria and the largest city in the region known…

    Hanging Out in Freising

    Freising is a town of 50,000 people located along a main train route about 20 miles northeast of the center…

    Hidden Valley

    Hidden Valley Beer Hike Hidden Valley is one of a handful of hikes into New Mexico’s Valles Caldera National Preserve…

    Beery Cincinnati

    Beery Cincinnati is a story of a visit to a city with one of the USA’s strongest beer histories and…