One thing I noticed while building my Top 10 list: Great writing is hardly a requirement of great blogging (though it certainly helps to be pretty good). Here’s an example of great hiking writing, from the BigOutside blog. I’m slogging…
Blogs
10 best hiking and camping blogs
by tom • September 12, 2011 • 22 Comments
Steven over at My Life Outdoors asked his readers to nominate the top outdoor blogs, which was a tidy coincidence: Today I wrapped up a quick-and-dirty analysis of more than 300 sites on my Twitter list of hiking and camping…
Blogs
I’m the content editor at Trail Sherpa
by tom • September 4, 2011 • 13 Comments
Last week Tim Miner, the creator of Trail Sherpa, invited me to get in on the action on his site. He’s putting together a team of contributors to the site; it’ll be up to me to make sure everybody plays…
Hiking
How much water should you share with a struggling fellow hiker?
by tom • September 2, 2011 • 8 Comments
I love it when the New York Times addresses critical hiking issues (so rarely it’s actually news around these parts). The issue: a guy hiking in the Grand Canyon ended up dead a couple days after backpackers tried to help…
Gear
Interview with me at Hiking Boots News
by tom • August 17, 2011 • 0 Comments
Jeanette from Hikingboots.com found time in her whirlwind tour of Outdoor Retailer to talk to me about the stuff I’d seen there.
For those who missed it a few months back, here’s a Q&A I did at Hikingboots.com.
Photography
Grand Canyon from a Boeing 737
by tom • August 7, 2011 • 5 Comments
My Southwest Airlines route to Salt Lake City for Outdoor Retailer routed me first through Phoenix, so the flight to Salt Lake City passed directly over the Grand Canyon. It was also late evening, so I had excellent light. How…
Gear
Of heaven and hiking boots at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market
by tom • August 7, 2011 • 7 Comments
OK, so I had no intention of attending the breakfast sponsored by the Conservation Alliance, the good-deed-doing arm of the outdoor industry. Had other fish to fry (well, other pancakes to eat). But I did to manage to catch the…
Hiking
Be back in a week
by tom • August 1, 2011 • 2 Comments
I’ll be on at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market all week; hopefully I’ll have some fresh content here by this time next week. Here are some links in the meantime: My Twitter feed — I’ll try to post updates, but the…
Blogs
7 tips for bloggers at Outdoor Retailer
by tom • July 31, 2011 • 8 Comments
I’ll be at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market in Salt Lake City next week, but I won’t be wearing my blogger hat. I’m attending on behalf of Verb Nerd Industries and pitching my track record as a Senior Hiking Blogger to…