This one goes out to Steve Sergeant, who would snow-camp all year if there were clean ski tracks available. An avid outdoorsguy from Australia, where the folks in the far southern climes are chilling out for another winter, left a…

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Got a note the other day from the folks at venturetree.blogspot.com, a group blog about outdoors stuff based in Nashville. The blog’s been working up steam for the past few months and looks to be off to a good start.…

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Remember how I was lavishing praise on VirtualParks.org the other day? Well, just now I did some poking around at the non-local sites I used to watch every day and found that since early July, at least three other blogs…

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Michelle Waitzman, author of “Sex in a Tent: a Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature,” writes many odes to sleeping under a thin layer of nylon in her blog. Based in New Zealand, she’s plugged in to the…

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OK, so the Google Ads Experiment of 2007 is a couple days old. Average revenue per day: couple bucks and change. I could live well in the Black Hole of Calcutta on those wages. To pay my current living expenses,…

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Many are the men, apparently, who think they can keep pace with Catra — here’s the blog of the guy hiking with her at the moment. They’re at Kennedy Meadows all day today if you want to bop up there…

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Here’s a guy who razzes me for taking hot summer hikes and he’s out in June in the Arizona desert. One thing about that kind of heat, though: you know what you’re in for.

A couple of my alert readers have persuaded me it’s time to think about putting some ads on my pages. Since I pull about 150,000 page views a month across three distinct blogs, it seems like not adding ads is…

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