HIKER TOM
This site was created to provide a central location for trip reports and photos from my hiking and backpacking adventures. Visit often for updates.

BACKGROUND


If you landed here on purpose then welcome. I haven't update this site in ages (like 8 years). I recently hikes the PipiWai trail on Maui and I wanted to share some photos. I'll get them up as soon as I can. Heck I may even update the site with a modern look and add my GC trips from 2015 1nd 2018 - maybe.

I have always enjoyed hiking and exploring new places. I got interested in backpacking when my sister mentioned that she would like to go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. That was in 2005 when the family gathered together for Thanksgiving. We had been to the canyon in 1968 on a family vacation and had the opportunity to fly into the canyon in a twin engine plane before flight restrictions were put into place limiting where the charter companies could fly. We were taken about fifty feet off the Colorado river and sometimes the wing tips were so close to the canyon walls and peaks that it looked like they were going to scrape. Anyway, we both got the fever then. I made a quick trip there in 1973 and hiked to Indian Garden, but neither of us really did anything about it until our first trip in 2006. I have not been able to stop going back since that trip and if I lived closer I would be there more often. My last trip was in May of 2019 with a good friend that has accompanied me on many of my backpacking trips.