Welcome!

     Welcome to our first blog!! First off, why the name? Well we saw some banana slugs while hiking up around Big Sur and thought they were a little disgusting, but crazy cool at the same time. But Banana Slugs.blogspot.com was taken (apparently they're the mascot for UC Santa Cruz.....who picked that mascot?!?!). So, on to bananas. I only eat bananas when they're green, and Aldo only eats them when they're old and spotted (eww), so.....we got greenspottedbananaslugs.blogspot.com!!!

       Now, why are we blogging? While we were hiking, we were talking about how it would be neat to have a place to expand on all of our adventures a little bit more. We hike/backpack often, and after a while, they can tend to all blend together. So we thought a blog might be a good place to chronicle each hike in more detail.  Plus it will allow family and friends to get a better description of our hikes and will be great to look back on after a few years and have a journal of all things outdoors. I had previously just been uploading pictures to facebook, but always felt like it left out a lot....people would see the pictures, but it was hard to convey all the other factors that made each trip memorable. Plus, I was starting to have entirely too many facebook photo albums. 
     So we will start with our most recent trip up Hwy 1 to Big Sur. Then slowly start going back to past trips and maybe throw in a few gear reviews here and there. Enjoy!