We started writing Scavenger Hike Adventures Rocky Mountain National Park about two years ago.  We spent a couple of weeks at Rocky in 2005 and met with rangers and experts and looked around.  What a wonderful hiking park.  Kat and I fell in love with Rocky.  We read every book available and last year Kat rented a house in Estes Park overlooking Twin Sisters pinnacles and hiked everyday with rangers, historians and experts and locals.   I was really quite jealous.  I used every piece of my available time and joined her.

 It gave us stomach aches when we left Estes Park and returned to the Smokies.  Now two years later from our first research visit and over a thousand  hours of research and hiking and the book will be released in just a few weeks!!!  Whew.  Kat is out of town up north and I am thinking I'll take my dog down to some isolated campsite and sleep and read some books on Shenandoah National Park; our next book project.  We have been researching Shenandoah and will head out there in a couple of weeks to begin the wonderful job of exploring and creating Scavenger Hike Adventures.  We will give provide a journal update on that new adventure right here.

I am a trainee blogger...so feel free to give advice.  I am still struggling with upload photo deal.

Want to know how it feels to have a book totally done where you can't change anything else or doublecheck another fact or try to figure out if a dragonfly illustration really fits at the elevation of hike #??  or did we remember to thank everyone or is that scavenger hike clue to vague?????

I don't know.  I am still in shock.

 By the way, if you go on a Scavenger Hike Adventure and comment on what a great clue you were just given.....That would be Kat. She is so nice.

If you read the clue twice and walk back to retrace your steps..scratch your head...That would be me. 

Our second hiking book is finished and we feel honored and privileged to help others enjoy the wonder and awe of our national parks.  

John LaFevre