Try the U.S. Park Service in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They'd be happy to help. Read --A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson. Its full of history and facts. Also take a look @ Exploring the Appalachian...
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Try the U.S. Park Service in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They'd be happy to help. Read --A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson. Its full of history and facts. Also take a look @ Exploring the Appalachian...
If anybody is looking for a great college on the AT look into Lees McRae College in beautiful Banner Elk, N.C. Its natural setting and its many degree offerings is enough to keep anyone happy. I am a...
My friend Thomas and I were hiking on Wednesday, Sept 6, on the Roan Mt bald in Tennessee where we had a run in with a bear. Thomas is a quite guy and he don't say too much but I'm always talking. I...
Thanks guys I finally made a choice on a bike. I ordered a Trek 4300 mountain bike. I love it and I can't wait till I recieve it next week.
I like to hike but recently I realized biking is fun too, but I need a new bike. I need something light weight that I can ride on campus and to my job but I also need something I can take on trails....
First I would grab my camera and turn the flash off. Better yet I'd turn it to video mode. Scientists say to play dead and I cannot agree. If a bear has her cubs with her and you drop to the ground,...
Walk a mile, drop your phone and high tale it out of there. Then call her when your about out of New York. Every little bit, stop, look, and most importantly listen, that the sound of life before...
AND, by the way....CLAPTON was talking about LOVE... NOT your HAIR when he sang: "Let it Grow".
I Love my hair. :-?
Its funny I found this poll today because my dad and mom stated a couple of months ago that I was worthless, stupid for going to leave home, and them paying for anything, was over. Didn't think a...
Wear Sandals... It never hurt me...
Nate:o
How far are we from a socalist/dictatorship and a communist society when this nations powerful elite controls all? Then recieves incentive to control all! Tax hikes are inevitable due to the huge...
The only thing I know to do about "lack of funds" and "cutting back" is to ask yourself the simple question- Democrat, Republican, or Green? I've got family that works for GSMNP, republican family,...
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT BROTHER- THE LESSER THE BETTER. I, ON THE OTHER HAND, WILL NEVER AND CAN NEVER STRAY AWAY FROM MY INSULIN NOR MY PUMP. ONE OF YOU GUYS ONCE TOLD ME ONE TIME- AND IT MIGHT EVEN...
I took a woman on the trail once! I have yet to hear as much bit*h'in than I heard on that day from a single woman since. Find me a female who is pretty, smart, funny, over 5 feet tall, likes the...
A queston was brought up many years ago regarding the diets of arctic animals. The question was asked by the Canadian gov. before they sent Farley Mowat deep into the Canadian wilderness to observe...
Man I forgot, there is more I need to tell you. a very wise man told me once that life consists of 10% what happens to you and 90% what you do with it. Many, many times I got down and asked God why...
I have hiking with Type 1 Diabetes since I was 15 yrs old. I use a insulin pump which regulates my blood sugar to near profection. Now after deciding to major in Forestry/Wildlife Mgmt. I now need to...
One of my Biology professors is trying to teach me a lesson for being a nature lover. She feels my recient stay in shelters and my all to common solo-hikes has prompted her to give me a essay on the...
Buying is great , charity is also great, but please<for the love of God> don't come to visit me @ K-Mart on Christmas Eve. I won't be pleasent at midnight.
Merry Christmas
Nate:sun
Here it is, December, Christmas is upon us, and yet this is when I realize that alot of the people I come in contact with everyday are in life for the wrong reasons. Rant and rave, run and shout, it...
I am an 18 yr old Type-1 Diabetic hiker. I feel your pain in finding carbs everytime I'm on the trail or when I climb. I go by a carb scale, which is 100% different than your 4000cal scale, in...
Try hiking in Tennessee and North Carolina <the Redneck Capital of the world>:cool:
"I've section hiked all over the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and some in South-West Virgina. I am a Type 1 Diabetic, someone who is discouraged from doing anything freely...