Statue of General Nathanael Greene, who led the Continental forces at Guilford Courthouse. This park is a history buff’s dream — right here in good ol’ Greensboro, the general famous for losing America to the Revolutionaries eked out a Redcoat…
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Pic of the day
by tom • February 17, 2011 • 0 Comments
From a hike to Hawksbill at the Linville Gorge Wilderness. Write-up here.
Why I’m flogging my new freelance business here
by tom • February 17, 2011 • 1 Comment
Verb Nerd Industries is my pitch site for freelance writing, editing and blogging gigs. Why bug all you innocent hikers with this news? Well. If so many of you hadn’t repeatedly encouraged me to keep updating Two-Heel Drive, I’d have…
Pic of the Day
by tom • February 7, 2011 • 2 Comments
Partly cloudy skies over Clingman’s Dome, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, July 2010 From “Quick Trip to Clingman’s Dome.” (Got a pic you’d like to nominate for Pic of the Day? Drop me an e-mail) Need more pictorial prettiness? Check…
ADKinLA – an Upstater’s take on SoCal hiking
by tom • February 7, 2011 • 1 Comment
I’ve been popping in on this blog since it showed up last November, when its author landed in Los Angeles after many years in the the Adirondacks of Upstate New York. A guy who writes stuff like “For us Californians,…
Splitboarding with Sam H
by tom • February 7, 2011 • 1 Comment
Credit: Sam Haraldson Sam Haraldson lives in Bozeman, Montana, and is a reliable source of bloggage from the spectacular northern Rockies. He’s a wizened veteran of splitboarding, which relies on a snowboard sawed in half for backcountry touring (why go…
Uh, did we learn nothing from Grizzly Man?
by tom • February 7, 2011 • 2 Comments
Credit: National Geographic Rick at Best Hike linked to this video starring Casey Anderson, who’s been raising Brutus the grizzly for six years. The pic above is a screen grab from the video, which, among other things, features Brutus as…
Steph Davis on staying clean while living the grunge dream
by tom • February 6, 2011 • 0 Comments
A writer to climber/daredevil Steph Davis’s site wonders: how did Steph attend to bodily hygiene while she was living in her car between adventures on assorted crags? A few of Steph’s techniques: Gallon of water and a washcloth (even works…
Preview: Appalachian Trail Festival, July 1-8
by tom • February 6, 2011 • 0 Comments
Danny Bernstein plans to be in southwest Virgina for a week’s worth of trail-related doings. Among the highlights: More than 190 miles of the Appalachian Trail are featured in a series of section hikes from Dennis Cove Road in Tennessee…