It has been a busy week upgrading our place for visitors. Well, we should back up a second . . . we had our first visitors! Last Saturday (and Sunday it turned out) we hosted Appalachian Trail hikers "One Speed" from England, "Uncle Gramps" from Maine, and...

We're busily getting ready for our first season ministering to hikers on the Appalachian Trail in New York. We've got Bibles (over a hundred of them!) and are working on creating a “Hikers Guide to Unionville, NY” which includes an invitationto our church's...

My family and I are working on getting settled in Unionville, NY, a trail town along the Appalachian Trail. Unionville is so small, in fact, that it is not a town but a village! It does make for a nice stop for hikers with an Italian restaurant, a general store, a...

Today we did one last trail magic in North Carolina. Next week we start our move to New York! Despite it being early in the hiking season we still had about 15 hikers come through. We teamed up with another trail magic group at Sams Gap and provided quite the...

We're glad to have recently had donated to us a box of 100 new Bibles! They are English Standard Versions testaments with the New Testament plus Psalms and proverbs. We've got some other King James Version testaments as well. We're excited to make these available to...

Thanks to Yard Dart and Laser Beam we've got some new snow gaiters and micro spikes! These should come in handy for winter hiking in New York – Banzai!

Banzai (Doug) has accepted a call to be the pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Unionville NY!The Appalachian Trail runs rights by Unionville. Most hikers will actually take the road into town and resupply at the General Store, eat at the restaurant there, and pick...

We've been making these signs using acrylic paint on wood scraps that we have lying around. And it has given us the idea that it would be a fun tradition for our guests at Sola to make a sign when they visit. We hope you'll make a sign with us someday! -Banzai and Hot...