About Hiking Redrock

We, Meredith Bowman and John Gallant, make it our business to help hikers who wish to explore the great outdoors in greater depth than can be found on marked trails. 

It's a big world out there, and most of it does not have trails. However, trails, usually lack hazards. Things like bushes, slippery gravel, difficult rocks, and steep slopes or cliffs. Hiking off trail, one encounters all these things quite often. 

It is our goal to introduce you to this world of off trail hiking in a way that avoids excessive danger and reduces the unpleasant aspects to a bare minimum. In this weay you will be enabled to appreciate the joys of exploration at live to tell the tale too. 

That said, know that off trail hiking is hard. Every step is an adventure. You need more strength and stamina than you do on trails.

And most of all, you need a thick skin. Sometimes it seems that the whole natural world is out to get you. Bushes claw at you. Rocks roll on you. The sun beats on you. If you are to hike like this, you must find ways to pass through these hazards efficiently and safely, so that you may emerge into that magical place you always suspected was just over that hill.

And this is where we come in. We've been doing this a very long time. Frankly, cross country hiking is highly addictive. Very often meople who try it find that trails lose their luster, becoming drab and uninteresting. It happens.

Of course a trail is sometimes the proper way to go. We aren't averse to trail travel, but it's nice to have the option to follow your nose when the fancy strikes you.

So come join us. You will be challenged. You will be tested. You will be scratched. And you will find out that you are much more capable than you ever suspected.

It'll be fun! M+J :-D