Credit: Sam Haraldson Sam Haraldson lives in Bozeman, Montana, and is a reliable source of bloggage from the spectacular northern Rockies. He’s a wizened veteran of splitboarding, which relies on a snowboard sawed in half for backcountry touring (why go…
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Uh, did we learn nothing from Grizzly Man?
by tom • February 7, 2011 • 2 Comments
Credit: National Geographic Rick at Best Hike linked to this video starring Casey Anderson, who’s been raising Brutus the grizzly for six years. The pic above is a screen grab from the video, which, among other things, features Brutus as…
Steph Davis on staying clean while living the grunge dream
by tom • February 6, 2011 • 0 Comments
A writer to climber/daredevil Steph Davis’s site wonders: how did Steph attend to bodily hygiene while she was living in her car between adventures on assorted crags? A few of Steph’s techniques: Gallon of water and a washcloth (even works…
Preview: Appalachian Trail Festival, July 1-8
by tom • February 6, 2011 • 0 Comments
Danny Bernstein plans to be in southwest Virgina for a week’s worth of trail-related doings. Among the highlights: More than 190 miles of the Appalachian Trail are featured in a series of section hikes from Dennis Cove Road in Tennessee…
TripAdvisor buys EveryTrail
by tom • February 3, 2011 • 1 Comment
The only Silicon Valley CEO who answers my e-mails — Joost Schreve of EveryTrail.com — lobbed a minor bombshell in my in-box this morning with news that he’d sold EveryTrail to TripAdvisor, a subsidiary of the travel giant Expedia.com. Getting…
First hike at Piedmont Environmental Center
by tom • January 16, 2011 • 2 Comments
Coming home with nice pictures changes the whole complexion of my hikes. Case in point: I hiked just over 11 miles Sunday on the trails of Piedmont Environmental Center, about 30 miles east of my doorstep. The hiking’s just bumpy…
First look at Crowders Mountain State Park
by tom • January 9, 2011 • 6 Comments
Weekends usually put the crowd in Crowders Mountain, the state park closest to Charlotte (metro area population 1.7 million), but the trails tend to be clear on January mornings when red’s all but gone from the thermometer. I started out…
First Hike of 2011: Lower Cascade Falls and Cook’s Wall
by tom • January 2, 2011 • 2 Comments
My New Year’s resolution is to hike a new trail every weekend. But coming up with a resolution was about as ambitious as I got Sunday morning, as I was satisfied with a jaunt to trusty ol’ Hanging Rock State…