Sunshine Blogger Award 2018 Nomination!

I am very happy to announce that Faraway Horizons has been nominated for its second award since go-live this past August!  This honor is called the Sunshine Blogger Award.  It is a blogger-to-blogger award that recognizes up-and-coming blogs that share positivity and spreads sunshine to its readers!  (Read about Faraway Horizons’ first award nomination here.) […]

Liebster Award 2018 Nomination for Faraway Horizons!

I am excited to announce that Faraway Horizons has been nominated for the 2018 Liebster Award!  This is a huge honor!  The Liebster Award is used to discover and recognize up-and-coming blogs that have a new, fresh perspective on the content that they create.  Not only is this Faraway Horizons’ first nomination, but it is […]

Wonderland Trail: Backpacking Permit Dream or Nightmare?

The Wonderland Trail is a big, 93 mile loop hike around Mt. Rainer in Washington.  My friend and I decided that walking in a big circle for 10+ days sounded like a good way to spend a vacation. Due to the popularity of this hike, the National Park Service assigns permits for each group planning […]

Forester Pass

Come on an adventure with me. There it is…  We finally made it to the tree line.  An increasingly dense pine wilderness lies behind us.  Ahead of us, the trail winds through a wilderness of brownish-gray boulders… to higher and higher elevations where plants can no longer survive.  What awaits us across the boulder field […]

Siler Gap Shelter

“This is my personal goal because nothing is impossible.”  This is part of a message that was written on the Siler Gap Shelter.  This note was written by Medicine Man on day 15 of his Appalachian Trail journey.  In his message, he was referring to the long walk from Georgia to Maine.  It was written […]

Thank You!

Hey, you!  Yeah, you!  The one reading this screen!  Thank you so much for checking out Faraway Horizons!  You have no idea how much I appreciate it – I really can’t do this without you.  I’ll be posting one new post every week, so be sure to check back next week for more! Don’t forget […]