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Week ender looking for a hiking partner. I'm located in NC (Triangle; you don't have to be) looking for someone interested in occasional weekend or 3-4 day trips. I've got most of NC and some...

47 yo male sectioner, medium-slow looking for a buddy for a 25 - 30 miler in mid October. Dates flexible. Prefer GA or north of the Smokies. Flexible.

Maybe Dick's Creek - Neels, Hughes Gap -...

I'm an experienced hiker, 47 yo, medium slow pace, looking for a partner for a weekend
(2-3 day) walk in the woods before it gets too warm. Place and timing optional. I've done a good chunk of the...

Standing Indian Mountain , not Campground. It looks like about 22 miles on my map.

I'm looking to do a short section next weekend from Standing Indian Mountain to Wallace or Winding Stair Gap. I was counting on scoring a shuttle through Rainbow Springs. Of course, much to my...

Thanks all for the input. Ben and I are about the same size. What I seem to be hearing is bigger bags can be had, but bigger AND lighter is a stretch (no pun intended). I'll look at these and repost...

Hey all,

I'm looking for recommendations on a new bag. I'm currently using a 15 deg Sierra Designs Sandman long (the kind with the funky spandex stretch system). I'm looking for something lighter...

Stairs in the steep places?? Sheesh... escalators. And moving walkways, you know, those things in the airports. And the shelters, which knucklehead forgot to mention a kegerator, resupplied daily by...

I'm not a hammocker so I don't know. Does it make sense to have the underquilt "outside" the hammock rather than between you and the hammock. Seems to me a little velcor would put it in a position to...

First it was oil. Now they're after compasses.

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The Sergeant is the Army.

Gen Dwight David Eisenhower

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men (and women (SD) lived." - General George S. Patton, Jr

The spring at Ivy Creek Maintenance Shed (Loft Mountain; adjacent to trail just N of the wayside)) was running like a spigot. The spring at Blackrock Hut was very slow, but water could be had easily...

I'm planning to do the short section between Loft Mtn and Rockfish Gap next weekend. I spoke to a nice fellow at the Rockfish Gap Visitor's Center and he told me that due to the extreme drought this...

Thanks for the lead. I looked up the Rockfish Gap Visitor's Center online (540-943-5187) and a nice fellow there read a couple of names off the list for me. Seems like there would be a "master list"...

Does anybody have access to the shuttle list for Waynesboro mentioned in several threads? I'll be up there Friday 11/10 and would like a shuttle from Rockfish Gap to Loft Mountain so I can hike back...

Ayy-Tee. 'nuff said.

I use a couple of Platys, both 2 liter, andsometimes a botle as well. One of the platys I keep in my pack lid and drink from it with a tube. The other stays rolled up when for camp or when I need...

"Never criticize a man before youwalk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."

At least one poster to complain how he got booted by Wingy for bringing fluorescent or God forbid halogen into the discussion.

You might also try the southern trail, from Damascus to Fontana, or Erwin even to Springer. The timing puts you in peak fall color season, with considerably warmer temps, and little risk of snow. Of...

94%. No wonder I think of celibates as oversexed.

Was by there in early May. I'd give it a 6 or 7 on a scale of 10 seemed fairly clean and the little stream out front was running well. Of course that is subject to change.

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1. Blue can of steel; What promise do you hold? Salt flesh so ripe

2. Can of metal, slick; Soft center, so cool, moistening; I yearn for your salt

3. Twist,...

Yeah, I loved the boot, and was sorry to see it come apart. I wear a size 13, and one boot was 2# 4oz on the REI scale. Quite disheartening when I weighed a PAIR of trailrunners at 1# 14oz. At around...