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DAY TRIPPER: Ricketts Glen State Park

by davepidgeon on November 5, 2009

Twenty-one waterfalls, just seven miles of hiking … Can a backpacker ask for more?

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What worked: Catskills edition

by davepidgeon on September 15, 2009

Let’s set the scene: A low pressure storm system developed Friday off the Atlantic Coast, which spun like a wheel and lashed the Northeast region with rain storms. The Catskill mountains soaked just under an inch of rain between Friday and Saturday as members of the Appalachian Mountain Club hiked into the Slide Mountain Wilderness, [...]

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Expect crowds, mud and history at Stratton

by davepidgeon on August 10, 2009

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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Hike-able Phoenix

by davepidgeon on January 15, 2009

  New Compass Points video is up, and this week we talk about three day hikes around Phoenix, Ariz. What amazes me is how Phoenix is one of the largest cities in North America with about 1.5 million people, it covers an enormous portion of central Arizona, and yet with just a few short strides, you [...]

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