This’ll be a quick one — a jaunt up to Cook’s Wall at Hanging Rock State Park. While it’s under five miles, this is a pretty vigorous hike with lot of rocky trails and witness-the-earth’s-curvature views on a clear day.…
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Rainy-day hike at Laurel Bluff, Reedy Fork trails
by tom • March 27, 2011 • 4 Comments
Reedy Fork Creek along the Laurel Bluff Trail. I defied a rainy weather forecast yesterday and notched another hike on the Greensboro Watershed — this time in a seven-mile loop taking in the Laurel Bluff and Reedy Fork trails east…
High-top hiking boots: better than low-rise shoes?
by tom • March 10, 2011 • 12 Comments
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…
Must-see vid: strenuous Yosemite day hikes
by tom • March 9, 2011 • 2 Comments
If Yosemite National Park figures in your vacation plans, here’s a nice video from a park ranger outlining the muscle-burners in the Valley: Great thing about the harder hikes: They’ll get you up and away from the throngs of tourists,…
Just for fun: my 10 favorite hiking blogs
by tom • March 6, 2011 • 39 Comments
What’s a hiking blog need to make my personal top 10? Let’s start with: Timeliness: Newsy, relevant, plugged in to the latest doings and technology. Stamina: We’ve all got a few blog posts in us, but the best bloggers keep…
Owl’s Roost Trail on the Greensboro Watershed
by tom • February 27, 2011 • 0 Comments
Lake Brandt in the Greensboro Watershed I won’t pretend this is a great hike. But it’s not too bad when you consider it’s entirely with the city limits of Greensboro, population 255,000. Owl’s Roost Trail snakes along the shores of…
Pic of the day
by tom • February 17, 2011 • 0 Comments
From a hike to Hawksbill at the Linville Gorge Wilderness. Write-up here.
Why I’m flogging my new freelance business here
by tom • February 17, 2011 • 1 Comment
Verb Nerd Industries is my pitch site for freelance writing, editing and blogging gigs. Why bug all you innocent hikers with this news? Well. If so many of you hadn’t repeatedly encouraged me to keep updating Two-Heel Drive, I’d have…
ADKinLA – an Upstater’s take on SoCal hiking
by tom • February 7, 2011 • 1 Comment
I’ve been popping in on this blog since it showed up last November, when its author landed in Los Angeles after many years in the the Adirondacks of Upstate New York. A guy who writes stuff like “For us Californians,…