Tagged: hiking
Nature News: Changes, Chicks and Spring Blooms
Cathy Shill wrote this on Friday, June 4th, 2010
Tagged as hiking, Mud Season, Nature News, wildflowers, wildlife+ Categorized as Spring
(Hiking with clients on Munger Mountain south of Wilson.)
June arrives to rivers rising, green grass and rainstorms. In the mountains we wait on end for summer’s warmth to come. May was a typical spring month, [...]
Nature News: Desert Time!
Cathy Shill wrote this on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Tagged as arizona, Desert, hiking, Nature News, wildlife+ Categorized as Spring
By mid-April, about 400 inches of snow had fallen in the mountains. This is close to average, but moisture content is still below normal. It was a chilly month and ended with more snow and [...]
continue readingSki Raft-aineering on the Middle Fork
Jim Stanford wrote this on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Tagged as hiking, Idaho, Rafting, Wilderness+ Categorized as Adventures, Skiing
Forrest McCarthy, Exum mountain guide and public lands director for Winter Wildlands Alliance, recently set out with a few wilderness advocates to explore Idaho’s Salmon River country in winter.
The group skied into the Frank Church [...]
Summit Up USA: Sassafras Mountain, SC
Mark Zimmer wrote this on Monday, January 11th, 2010
Tagged as hiking, Summit Up USA+ Categorized as Causes
Greetings from high point No. 10, the highest point in South Carolina: Sassafras Mountain. Sassafras Mountain has an elevation of 3,560 feet, so it is not exactly the kind of high point you stand on [...]
continue readingSummit Up USA: Mount Mitchell, N.C.
Mark Zimmer wrote this on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Tagged as hiking, mark zimmer, north carolina, Summit Up USA+ Categorized as Adventures, Causes
If you had to guess where the highest point east of the Mississippi River is, where would you put it? I always thought it would be somewhere in the Northeast. Maine or New Hampshire came [...]
continue readingThe Overland Track
Mariah McPherson wrote this on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Tagged as australia, backpacking, hiking, travel+ Categorized as Adventures, Ambassadors
(The author, at far left, with friends Becca, Jamie and Pat at the end of the Track.)
Tasmania was never at the top of the list of places I want to explore. To be honest, [...]
