Sarah at Freezerbagcooking.com has started a new hiking site for women called Traildivas.com. I hope to show other women what they can do to carry less weight while backpacking, how to hike farther when dayhiking and to feel comfortable taking…

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LinkedIn is a professional networking site whose membership includes a remarkable number of acquaintances of mine. Yesterday a woman I worked with in 1990 added me to her network, which is nice to know since she’s the editor in chief…

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It’s up and running at the same URL but it has a new RSS feed: http://outside.danmitchell.org/feed/

OK, I get in moods that require me to do things like this now again. Think autistic-savant minus the savant part. These are all the UK-based hiking blogs I found today, with Andy and AktoMan thrown in for good measure.…

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Darren Christie dropped me a note yesterday to encourage links to more UK hiking/trekking/walking blogs. Fair enough, says I, and I start out at this thread at outdoorbloggers.com and start bookmarking the blogs there. Then I do some more poking…

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Thanks to all who posted comments on the “blogging for dollars” post I did this morning … later it occurred to me I had signed a non-disclosure agreement about this deal and even though the company wasn’t named, I didn’t…

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Elizabeth King, keeper of the Walktopia blog, dropped me an e-mail this morning reporting she had named Two-Heel Drive the Best Hiking Blog, one of a raft of “best-ofs” she’s added to the rail on her blog. The rest of…

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Scoutmaster Clark has the dirt, including tips for getting in on all the RSS fun the rest of us are having.

Wade & Co. have been busy. Among the highlights: 1. A mention in Outside. 2. A list of the 10 best backpacking innovations. 3) A blog interviewed Wade. Why do you love the outdoors? This is an excellent question, and…

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