The great thing about getting lost on the way here three weeks ago and having to turn back: returning when fall colors are going full-blast. This is where your intrepid hiking blogger is forced to admit that he hasn’t done…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Best Carolina hiking blogs
by tom • October 20, 2009 • 4 Comments
Basically there’s Danny Bernstein’s This Hiking Life and all the rest. Danny (short for Danielle) posts live from the Smokies most days. It isn’t all elk sex in front of God and everyone, but it’s almost always about great places…
Fall colors on the Blue Ridge Parkway
by tom • October 18, 2009 • 6 Comments
No hikes to report this week, but we did get some miles in driving down the Blue Ridge Parkway — which has tons of nearby trails, so I did accomplish a bit of scouting for future treks. We’ve got a…
Coming to a ‘nature walk’ near you
by tom • October 14, 2009 • 0 Comments
Geeze, I’m like synthetics from head to toe here. About the only things not produced in a factory were my wife’s cookies and the PB&J she lovingly prepared. Just thought I’d post this, seeing as how my new job implicates…
Wolf Rock Trail, Stone Mountain State Park
by tom • October 11, 2009 • 4 Comments
Tip o’ the hat to Smokies Hiker, who suggested a stroll along Wolf Rock Trail at Stone Mountain State Park. There are no wolves, of course, but there is plenty of rock. My eight-mile loop was a considerable improvement on…
More on the Guides project at EveryTrail.com
by tom • October 10, 2009 • 2 Comments
Joost Schreve, CEO of EveryTrail.com, hired me to write more than two-dozen “Guides,” for his site, which allows the GPS-enabled to record their adventures with words, pictures and GPS waypoints. Now Joost and his team are building a second tier…
Bay Area hiking guide assembled
by tom • October 8, 2009 • 0 Comments
As I promised a few weeks back, I’ve created a few pages that sum up the Bay Area hiking experience as I saw it from 2004 to 2009. It starts here. Won’t be anything new to the regulars; it’s mostly…
First impressions on hiking in North Carolina
by tom • October 8, 2009 • 6 Comments
I’ve figured out a few things hiking in the hills near Winston Salem that I may have alluded to on my hike write-ups; today I felt like assembling them in one place for safekeeping. Humidity is wind chill in reverse.…
Sauratown Loop Trail: Not bad for a wrong turn
by tom • October 4, 2009 • 2 Comments
I had some exploring at Hanging Rock State Park in mind — the goal was to park at a remote trailhead and trek over to the Moore’s Wall Loop, which has an excellent view of Hanging Rock from the next…