avril 2014
REI is Offering an Extra 35% off on Closeouts
With spring hiking season already in full gear, and summer just around the corner, you may be finding yourself in need of some new gear. If ...
NC recreation and park planners seek public input for five-year plan
North Carolinians place a high value on outdoor recreation places and activities, and view these resources as important components of a heal...
Frazil Ice in Yosemite National Park
The last gasps of winter in the Yosemite Valley.... Check out this amazing video showing the "giant slurpee" that forms when ...
I Finally Started Tumbling
A Mojourner Truth exclusive. Over the years, I've posted a lot of photos here. The Procession of the Species has accounted for its sha...
Firefly Viewing Scheduled for June 4-11
Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have announced the Elkmont Firefly Viewing event in the park will take place from Wednesday, J...
A Short Walk to the Edge of Life
Over the weekend I finished reading another compelling story of survival, this one fraught with hard lessons every adventurer should learn. ...
Bear Warning Issued for Black Balsam and Shining Rock Wilderness Areas
The U.S. Forest is warning visitors in the Black Balsam and Shining Rock Wilderness areas of the Pisgah National Forest, to be on the lookou...
Big South Fork to Conduct Guided Hikes
The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be conducting a series of wildflower and birding guided walks as part of the McCr...
Appalachian Trail Conservancy Launches 'Zoom in to the Appalachian Trail' Photo Contest
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) is now accepting submissions for its “Zoom in to the Appalachian Trail” photo contest, a nationwide ...
Git Yer Baxter On
It's National Cowboy Poetry Week . Related: a review of Poems That Make Grown Men Cry . As a predominately British collection, it probab...
HikingintheSmokys.com Adds New Hikes to Website
Last week I mentioned a couple of times that Kathy and I spent a few days hiking in the Smokies recently. As a result of that visit, we have...
Fire Fungus after the Black Forest Fire
Wandering through the burnt woods around their school, students at the School in the Woods in Black Forest, northeast of Colorado Springs,...
Canoeist Breaks 20-Year-Old Record for Highest Waterfall Drop
Last fall, Jim Coffey from Canada paddled over the 60-foot La Cascada de Truchas on the Alseseca River in Mexico. In doing so, he broke a re...
Bicyclist on Blue Ridge Parkway Killed by Deer
The NPS Morning Report is reporting this morning that a cyclist was killed by a deer on the Blue Ridge Parkway. On the evening of April 2nd,...
7 Uses for a Tampon beyond the Customary
Number seven will surprise you — why the fascination with blowguns among outdoor survival types?
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation Seeks Support for Graveyard Fields Improvements
Last week the Blue Ridge Parkway announced that work will soon begin on the final portion of the Graveyard Fields improvement project. The B...
Half-blind Faith and Half-baked Science
Well, it all starts with a miraculously convenient find, what appeared to be a finial from a cross at a site probably associated with the...
The "Children of Ludlow"
One of my colleagues from the university recently referred to the students as "children of Ludlow, " claiming by analogy that the...
Taking the Hitchhikers to Ludlow
Ludlow Massacre monument (Wikipedia) It was a summer day in the mid-1970s and I was driving my ten-year-old Ford pickup down Interstate 25...
Annual Music of the Mountains Festival Scheduled
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will hold its 10th annual Music of the Mountains celebration Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. ...
Smokies to Host Cherokee Exhibit at Oconaluftee Visitor Center
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is hosting a Cherokee touring exhibit, “Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future“, on Saturday, April ...
Free National Junior Ranger Day to be Held in Smokies
Great Smoky Mountains National Park will celebrate National Junior Ranger Day on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with ...
The Hummingbird's Gamble
On April 11th I mentioned on Facebook that the first broad-tailed hummingbird had arrived, and a friend a few miles north in similar habitat...
The Best Day in the Smokies…. Ever!
Okay, “best” might be too strong of a superlative, but we can certainly use the word “glorious” to describe our hike out to Andrews Bald thi...
Why I Would Not Man the Barricades for Cliven Bundy
The stand-off over Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's refusal to pay public-lands grazing fees has energized a lot of people who are starting...
Western Mountain Snowpack April 1, 2014
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