I remember only having a leather backpack, some Nikes, and a hoodie on the very first day I went hiking. (Truth be told, I wish there was an FML back then to gear me up right! It was a day that I’d thought to myself: enough being scared of doing things like this. I’d only […]

Ryan Conklin was his name.  Good man.  At first, he just seemed like another member of the beginners’ hiking group I’d joined some 6, 7 years ago in Las Cruces, NM; well before the idea of Franklin Mountain Life was even in its inception phase. He was a tall guy, 6’5” and a lean silhouette […]

If y’all wouldn’t mind giving the aforementioned a quick text and let him know that this sudden change in our beautiful, 350-sunshine-day a year is not well-appreciated.  Though we do suppose that the 15 day window between our sunshine days and total days in the year is where anything can (and quite frankly should) happen. […]

“I don’t know, 9 miles seems a little more rough than what I’m used to…” Word-for-word this was my sentiment toward the new challenge presented to me on a rock platter. I’d never hiked Guadalupe Peak in all my years (barely any, really) of adventuring and photographing mountains.  I have an overdeveloped frontal lobe, we’ll […]