Many trails in the highest Sierra elevations won’t be clear for weeks. “Some of our highest country is still under 8 to 10 feet of snow,” Randall said. Farther west along the Sierra crest — such as at Desolation Wilderness,…

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When the boot your dog drags into camp has a decaying human foot in it.

The paper in Battle Creek, Mich., runs a nice piece from a hiker who wonders why the good hikers never get any good press. Recently, two day hikers, without food, water, map, compass set off on what was supposed to…

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Unfortunately, no trendy rich people were eaten. (This link brought to you by the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson).

The Washington Post has an excellent, in-depth account of a story that broke over the weekend, when two people got lost in the Southern California wilderness and stumbled upon the last campsite of John Donovan, a 60-year-old Pacific Crest thruhiker…

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Rocky Mountain News has an intriguing story of a body found in the woods and never identified: The skeleton was found at what appeared to have been the campsite for a well-provisioned sleep among the pines. The man died in…

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The Web site of Outside magazine has had a much-needed update that has added five separate RSS feeds. This’ll come as great news to the folks at GoBlog, who now will be able to ridicule the magazine with much greater…

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From the Hartford Courant: Barber, 38, reportedly was hiking through the park when she felt the urge to do a little rock climbing. Halfway up the rocks, Barber got in a jam. As one who doesn’t like heights, I can…

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Colorado’s governor signed a bill to reopen trails closed by private landowners.