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…
Backpacking
Links and comments about backpacking, camping and long distance hiking at Two-Heel Drive
Devil’s Path, one mean-ass place to camp in the Catskills
by tom • September 24, 2009 • 3 Comments
Gear Junkie Stephen Regenold had much more fun writing this piece for the New York Times than he had hiking the 27 miles (and 14,000 feet of elevation gain) in the notorious Devil’s Path west of *West Saugerties, New York.…
Yet another hiker dies at Half Dome
by tom • June 14, 2009 • 25 Comments
Update IV: A Florida man was found dead Monday, apparently having fallen from a cliff near Mirror Lake in eastern Yosemite Valley. ### UPDATE III: A friend of a couple who witnessed the accident posted this account. ### UPDATE II:…
Props to Andrew P. Hill, the guy who saved Big Basin
by tom • May 23, 2009 • 1 Comment
Thumbing though my copy of the The Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Book this morning, I stopped on a page devoted to Andrew P. Hill, a San Jose painter and photographer responsible for securing protection of the stand of old-growth redwoods…
Henry Coe backpacking: You know you want to
by tom • April 15, 2009 • 4 Comments
Henry Coe State Park is the only park in the Bay Area that allows camp-where-you-wanna backpacking. All the rest require reservations, and good luck getting a Saturday night at Big Basin or Sunol Wilderness if you haven’t paid for your…
California backpack outing recommendations sought
by tom • April 12, 2009 • 3 Comments
A reader asks for recommendations for a California backpacking trip. The requirements: Leaving in June. 4-5 hours from the Bay Area. 25 miles in 4.5 days. The reader has hiked part of the Lost Coast and may decide to finish…
Backpacking: solo or in a group?
by tom • October 10, 2008 • 11 Comments
The standard advice we all ignore is: Never hike alone. It seems that since backpacking is a more highly complex kind of hiking, the directive to never go solo should be even more of an imperative. If this were true,…
New on the WildeBeat: Leave No Trace Third Principle
by tom • July 31, 2008 • 5 Comments
Steve records a couple who tell how far you should poop from major water sources, plus other interesting details. From the script: EMILY RESSLER: And then another thing we like to talk about is what we call micro litter. And…
Backpacking at Big Pine
by tom • July 28, 2008 • 1 Comment
Carol came back with some great pictures. She was one of the folks who camped out with 4WheelBob and a bunch of us at Carrizo Plain last spring. Sad to say I didn’t get any hikes in this weekend ……