Jobs, kids and lives in general provide a zillion excuses for not hiking (and a raft of other nots: eating right, exercising, calling your mom). I needed to hang around the house this weekend, so the least I can do…
Here’s a post explaining my varied and curious layout decisions. I’m hoping to prove I know enough about blogging to shake loose a few bucks from people who need to know more about it, so I’ve started a series of…
I know, I should do this somewhere else and load all the fixes when I’m done, but I like doing it live. I’m crazy that way. Things’ll look pretty crazy today but hopefully it’ll make sense by the time the…
A few Appalachian Trail thru-hikers had a noisy night on the trail amid the killer storms that devastated broad swaths of Alabama and Georgia on Wednesday. It reminded me of some of the harrowing tales of beastly weather I’ve heard…
It’s OK to hike in the park down the street. It’s OK to walk a half-mile in the woods and call it a hike. It’s OK to take the kids car-camping in the state park and make .75 miles per…
Yesterday’s “why can’t I stop hiking” was huge hit among the hiking twitterati so I figured I’d expand on that theme with a challenge to everybody in the hiking blogosphere to post a short “why we hike” essay (if you…
It’s just walking on dirt. So why can’t I stop hiking? It’s not everything; it’s all the little things that seem huge at the time: like when that startling flash of brown in the tree canopy turns out to be…
Keen Voyageur Mid, left, and Keen Voyageur This one bedevils a lot of hikers: do I really need hiking boots that go over the heel? You might, but probably not for the reasons you think. Back when I was a…
This little news item from California reminded me there are right and wrong times to ping your rescue beacon. Scenario: Two guys go out winter camping, get caught in a white-out almost immediately. Snow covers their tracks and they get…
