For Spring or Fall, The Grand Enchantment Trail http://www.simblissity.net/grand_enchantment.shtml is a trail I've wanted to hike.
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For Spring or Fall, The Grand Enchantment Trail http://www.simblissity.net/grand_enchantment.shtml is a trail I've wanted to hike.
I for one think dixicritter is doing a heck of a job moderating and thank her for it. She has been warning us that that thread would be closed for days now.
Props to Dixie!
This article, http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=6466, mentions that Katz real name is Matt Angerer.
Another hike across the United States is Andrew Skurka's Sea-to-Sea hike at http://www.andrewskurka.com/C2C/index.php
I find it hard to believe Saimyoji and Darwin have been alone in a more remote shelter in a windy and hard pouring rain when they had to take a whiz. Would you really put on your raingear in the...
Hope you have a great trip Shutterbug!
My permit is July 30th. Passes are sold out for climbing before Aug 8th and out of the 3100 passes allotted for Aug, only 545 remain, mostly towards the...
Trauma and Yoni are interviewed at well over half way of their 10,000 mile hike and Jeff Knight of Granite Gear is also interviewed.
http://www.practicalbackpacking.com/blog/
The forest service announced last night that Mount St. Helens in SouthWest Washington state will re-open for climbing July 21st. Registration is only on-line. Most weekends are already not-available...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humility: Humility is the state of being humble. A humble person is generally thought to be unpretentious and modest: someone who does not think that he or she is better...
The google search for the trail I think you are referring to is the "Eastern Continental Trail". I believe Nimblewill Nomad was the first to hike the entire trail South to North in 1998,...
The Squeaky podcasts I know about:
http://www.practicalbackpacking.com/blog/archives/000004_pbp_episode_2_matt_hazley_endurance_hiker.php
http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/page71.asp (3 of them)...
I followed Squeaky's hike quite a bit last year. I'm rooting for the 40 days 100%. I didn't think he would make the CY TC last year and I think if he makes the 40 days this year it will be another...
Do you have a URL were we can download the Brain and Squeaky podcasts for those of us that need to listen to them from our PC's (don't have an ipod).
Trauma's website is at http://www.granitegear.com/trauma/
The site has been updated:
http://goliath.mail2web.com/
It looks like the Expedition will continue!
A news story is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/4975988.stm
An interesting reader comment was posted as per the lasted update, http://mediablog.mail2web.com/goliath.exp/blog/archive/2006/04/4352/#comments that makes is seem like the expedition may not have...
This is not the first Bering Strait crossing on foot. The following story is copied here because the URL http://www.news-star.com/stories/032698/lfe_russian.html now requires registration and log-in....
If you get a nylon pack like the Gossamer or six moon designs, especially one that hasn't been tested much yet; it may or may not make complete a thru hike depending on how full you stuff it, how...
I think the story being referred to is likely:
In the short story called Havasu in Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey talked about his trip down to the Supai and around the Havasupai reservation. His...
The majority that keep daily online journals on the PCT, while hiking, do it either by sending email through pocketmail or letters from a post office to a friend or transcriber who copies them into...
Several people hiked with hammocks in 2003. There aren't many trees in the desert but, as Chris writes, you don't really need a shelter most of the time. In the Sierra, you will have to camp in the...
http://www.trailcast.org/ :)
Thanks Red Cake for another great interview!
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12244
A good thread for prevention and treatment is at
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12069
The web site is great at http://pnt.org/ and the guildebook that can be ordered through the site or Amazon.com is also very good.
Would love to hike more on it. I wonder if Chris has hiked much...