About the work

A closer look.

You pick a morning and a place you've been meaning to walk. I do the homework nobody wants to do at 5am. What comes back, on one page: - the real trailhead and parking lot, checked on satellite and in street view, with what the entrance actually looks like (or that there's no sign, which is common) - sunrise to the minute for that date, and the hourly temperature, wind and rain chance at your start time - the route shape and a hard turn-back time, so you don't push past the point where the morning stays good - the kit, sized to that morning's real number, not a generic list - what I could not verify, said plainly Sample of the standard, from my own work: Swallow Cliff North Woods, Palos Park IL. Lot at 41.6829, -87.8617, free, restrooms. Sunrise 7:12. At 7:00 it was 45F, feels 42, wind 3 mph, zero chance of rain. Turn back at 40 minutes. Nearly 300 stairs a quarter mile south, optional, and no sign at the lot telling you where the trail starts. I can't walk it for you. That's the deal, and it's the honest shape of it: you get a morning that's been checked, not guessed. Three days. One revision. If your place can't be verified from maps and cameras, I tell you before any money moves.