HikeMore Adventures

We custom tailor tours through a complex network of forest service trails and secret trails blazed by local fishermen alike. Have you ever enjoyed a beautiful meal prepared from ingredients brought as well as picked right on the way to a pinnacle vista or cooked nestled in a cliff cave with views onto Linville Gorge? We will guide you through Western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway, Appalachian Trail, Price Lake, Lake James, Elk River Falls, Linville Falls and Compression (Twisting) Falls where you have to use ropes to hike down a steep drop. We will give you the insiders point of view on how locals know their mountains but carefully tailored to your interests and physical abilities.

Jack Kerouac's On The Road captured the magic of the cross country pilgrimage in United States. Arguably there is no other place in the world that can encompass such a diverse variety of raw nature from ocean to desert - one continent harboring ancient 3,000 year old redwoods, alien planet-like landscapes of Bryce Canyon and the enormous space of Grand Canyon all at once. The trip we will meticulously plan for you will depend entirely on your dreams and passions. We have had clients include helicopter flips prior to strenuous hikes and we have guided by driving the classic Americana airstream travel trailers through the most exotic RV campgrounds in the US for family vacations as well. Perhaps you would like to experience the Bourbon Trail of Kentucky while stopping at the best bluegrass festivals on the way or we can guide you through the entire Appalachian or John Muir trail. We finely tune the mixture of improvisation with thorough itinerary planning even for the most adventurous. We will carefully work with you to propose a customized tour for your family vacation or private adventure or honeymoon. It's not the destination as much as the journey!

Our partner and guide Justin Costner, contributing author and photographer for Outbound Collective, will walk you through the steps to becoming your own master landscape photographer. From nighttime long exposure shots to beautiful composition construction learn how to capture the whimsy of Mother Nature. You will learn how to produce crystal clear shots of your loved ones under the Milky Way, slow falling waterfalls or capture the flight of a streaking bald eagle. Think Yousuf Karsh mixed with Ansel Adams.

Survival Classes:
Fire making, water filtration, navigation, shelter construction, hunting, trapping, tracking, plant and tree identification, mushroom identification, backcountry fishing, signaling, campfire cooking, stone identification and flint napping. Yan Luss and Curt Teague work together to take on small groups of students for personal instruction on wilderness living and emergency survival skills.