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Here's another neat thing up in the sky....the ISS. The following site (NASA) has an email list (sign up link to right). You can get an alert when ever the ISS is going to go over your area. ...

back (sort of) on topic. Back in about '87 or so, I got to Newfound Gap, southbound. Signs saying trail closed at clingman's dome for insect spraying. Loooong detour down and off the mountain,...

I've never had a problem with them...AT in NC and VA, and other trails. (I'd consider the AT to be "flat ground", compared to places I have climbed with 12 points.) YMMV, of course.

I've been using these. Got big feet -- 15 in a winter boot, and microspikes, et al don't work that great. Prior, always used a simple strap on instep -- small plate with 4 corners bent down. Came...

Local8 has a google map with pins on known losses. Don't know how long they'll keep it updated.
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So, they also threw Einstein under the bus? If you compress something, it gets lighter? I guess you are squeezing the dark matter out of it?

I was cleaning out a my old office today. Ran across a few Backpacker magazines from 1984. Funny looking back at how "advanced" outdoors tech was back then.

I'm going to send them to my nephew,...

Just downloaded pics from this weekend....sunrise at Round Bald yesterday....Fire in the sky

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One more neat thing we found this weekend...there is a part of the state park (couple of miles from 19-E on TN 143, maybe 8 miles down from Carvers Gap) that is an old farm. Called the "Miller...

some pics from last year....

Sunset from the Cloudland Trail overlook on top of the Roan:

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Sunrise from Round bald:

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We just got back today (Monday 13th). We go every year, usually around the 2nd weekend of June. This trip for us is more photography oriented, than hiking. In the past, we have rented a house in...

Alive and lost for 26 days, kept journal:

http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/05/25/report-largay-kept-journal-during-weeks-missing-in-maine-woods/

FYI...in the area around Asheville NC

http://www.wral.com/suspect-in-hiker-s-assault-described-as-scruffy-stinky/15704187/

Bear Rape!!

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/01/apparently-leonardo-dicaprio-got-raped-by-a-bear/

You have now been "urked"....



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ok, ok....

http://sanlee.smugmug.com/photos/i-NbFQXsh/0/L/i-NbFQXsh-L.jpg

I'm shy.

...maybe later.

Anybody here camped on Round Bald (NC/TN) this past Sunday morning (June 14). Was in a yellow tent. I got a sunrise pic you might like, with your tent in it. PM me and I'll email.

In a dress shoe, I am a 13-AAA. It is nice being able to go into an Allen Edmonds store, have several that I can try on, and leave with a pair in hand. Actually have a CHOICE, and buy them on the...

Just looked at LLBean..they stop at 14.

Buddy of mine orders from 2bigfeet.com You might want to check there. Looks like everything 16 is in med width and wider.

And I thought I had it bad.

I am a 14N, 15 in some. Have had good luck with LL Bean. Have the leather Cresta hikers. The pair I use most is Italian, a newer pair I bought later as a backup is made IIRC in phillipines. ...

yep, I am definitely giving him the benefit of the doubt as it may have well been a training hike.

I was up there doing some photography work...working back and forth across the balds. It was...

....when there is snow or ice....and it isnt june in the southern appalachians.

Saw a guy hand-carrying an ice axe up Jane Bald (tn/nc) on Saturday morning. I guess you never know when the need might arise.

(not calling anybody out...but it was funny in an odd sort of way. ...

How safe is the parking at US-421/Low Gap TN? Need to park for about a week. Any close alternatives??

Thanks,