Never heard of Spoken City? Neither had I till a couple weeks back, but that didn’t stop me from soaking up a bit of free publicity. Spoken City wants to stick it to the W (you know, Walmart) and other…
Do hikers need iPads? (Please don’t throw anything at your screen; it won’t solve anything). I’m sure some’ll think the End of Times has arrived when they see the first gaggle of Boy Scouts gathered around an iPad on the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Google’s search ‘bots have been lecturing me of late. They’re telling me all the big money’s in mending people’s aches and pains, vs. doing things that cause them, like, say, walking over jagged terrain all day. Bottom line: I should…
If I could do one good deed during my time on this planet, it’d be this: getting everybody who has a blog off their fannies and out into the woods for just a few hours a week. I blogged seven…
