This is a little known masterpiece directed by Akira Kurosawa, who made so many it’s easy to lose count. It’s about a company of Russian troops exploring the far reaches of the Siberian tundra in the part of Russia Sarah…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Favorite pix of 2009
by tom • January 17, 2010 • 2 Comments
It’s late in the year for best of last year, but it’s rainy here today and I didn’t feel like mucking up already-soft trails and coming home all gunky. Furthermore, I’m going to be off in gearland through the end…
Sauratown Trail – Sections 14-16
by tom • January 10, 2010 • 0 Comments
Good trail, great idea: Seems some local hikers and horse people decided there was no good reason not to have a trail connecting Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock state parks, which are, after all, a mere dozen miles apart as…
New Year’s Day stroll at Salem Lake
by tom • January 1, 2010 • 3 Comments
I told a guy on the trail that I always try to get out for a New Year’s Day hike, though the facts don’t back me up: Just two First Day hikes in the past five (2007 and 2005 if…