A new hiking blog surfaces in Seattle, and a North Carolina-based author defends Great Smoky Mountain National Park from … National Geographic???
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Learn how to see a remote section of Sedona’s red rock wilderness, and find out about one of the craziest expeditions planned in the modern era.
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Twenty-one waterfalls, just seven miles of hiking … Can a backpacker ask for more?
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Epic. For Pennsylvania. Those are the best words to describe The Pinnacle in northern Berks County, a rock outcrop jutting out of Blue Mountain about 800 feet above the Lehigh Valley. No finer vista exists along Pennsylvania’s 229 miles of Appalachian Trail. While the experience of hiking there may not have the adventurous quality of [...]
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There have been times – visiting a poster store or staring at a framed photo of Tenyana Creek in Yosemite National Park that hangs in my living room – that I’ve wondered if the world really does belong to Ansel Adams. Or at the very least, Adams through his timeless black-and-white photography put an undeniable [...]
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This was a Tuesday. And already I began to count in my head how many thru-hikers and other backpackers would be spending the night at the Long Trail/Appalachian Trail shelters along Stratton Pond in southern Vermont. The number? No less than two dozen. On a Tuesday night in August. Not Friday or Saturday nights. Middle-of-the-work-week [...]
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Few moments in the life of a backpacker present more peril than when you introduce a girlfriend/wife to your beloved sport. I’ve a few stories about this, which seem hilarious to me now … not so funny to Alison, my wife. I’ve dragged her to the holy mountain in Ireland to the desert surrounding Phoenix [...]
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Sweaty and fatigued but nonetheless motivated, I emerged above timberline into a cool and cloudy environment. The path cut between two large boulders, and coming down was a group of teenagers. “Hey,” I called to them as they approached. “How much farther to the summit?” “It’s right there,” one of the boys said, pointing to [...]
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Backpacker, phone home! That is if the news out of Yellowstone National Park – where cell phone service is about to expand – is to be believed. From the Associated Press: The (Yellowstone) plan includes a limited expansion of cell phone service, restrictions on wireless Internet at historic lodges and rules for new scientific monitoring [...]
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You too can YouTube! Compass Points today makes its debut on the YouTube network with “CompassPointsTV.” I’ve posted the two most recent field podcasts – the Delaware Water Gap Challenge and the recent hike up to Cerro Chato in Costa Rica – and plan to broadcast more video in the future. Hit the “HQ” button [...]
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