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Connecting the Gems; From the Trail
Loading ...Gregg Treinish and Deia Schlosberg have embarked on an expedition to understand wildlife connectivity and the relationships between people and nature in the Northern Rockies of the United States.
Rutland Long Trail Festival
Loading ...[ August 7, 2010; ] Come join Outdoor Research on August 7th for the 2010 Rutland Long Trail Festival! This day-long celebration, which aims to “inspire individuals to participate in the outdoors”, will take place at the Rutland Fair Grounds in Rutland, VT. Backpacking magazine has called Rutland “the best place to raise children as thru-hikers” and last year the [...]
Connecting the Gems
Loading ...The Northern Rockies of the United States are one of the most important and intact ecosystems found today in the world’s temperate zone. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho are large, important landscapes that still fit the descriptions of Lewis and Clark, who came through [...]
Hiking without Limits Inside the Box
Loading ...The long trail ahead. PCT
There is a game you can play as you walk around the city: Following a repeating sequence of turns, i.e. Left-Left-Right-Left, you will end up places you have never seen before, even if you’ve lived in that same city ten years. We choose certain routes based upon instinct and habit; this [...]
Preparing for a Thru-Hike
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In the year 2000, I had thirty boxes of trail food packed and waiting to be shipped from Poulsbo, WA to post offices along the Appalachian Trail. I’d just received the first at Neel’s Gap when I decided I’d rather be somewhere else.
Five years later I found my way back to Springer Mountain and [...]
Voice Your Opinion: Yellowstone Winter Plan
Loading ...[ February 16, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. February 18, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. March 15, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. March 17, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. March 30, 2010; ] Have your voice heard. With a 2-year, interim plan in place, the National Park Service wants your opinion on a permanent plan for winter usage of Yellowstone National Park.
Mountain Climbing New Zealand Style
Loading ...In New Zealand on the East Coast of the North Island, I was keen to find a challenge. I decided on two of the highest volcanoes with a plan to do both in the same day. I love it when a plan comes together, shame this one didn’t.
Going Full Circle
Loading ...Mt. Watson to Mt. Blum Traverse: 9 days in the North Cascades backpacking, bushwacking, some sketchy route-finding, paddling and biking.
Life with Nancy
Loading ...It happened years ago, on Nancy’s first visit to my ancestral home, New Denmark, NB. Driving down a dark and lonely country road, a beaver suddenly appeared in our headlights, bounding down the road. It did not mind being illuminated and was not inclined to cede the right of way so Nancy, thinking of it’s safety, made me stop, leaped out of the car and herded that beaver right back into the creek.
