Their blog has turned into a women's studies course.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
{Those chips on their shoulders are pink.}
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Their blog has turned into a women's studies course.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
{Those chips on their shoulders are pink.}
How about having a "Singles" forum here for hikers interested in meeting other hikers who are interested in meeting and having relationships with other long distance hikers?
Seems like there'd be...
This is the radio you seek:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-SRF-M37V-Weather-Walkman-Presets/dp/B00008W7LS
I had this one, but gave it away and I've been sorry ever since.
Ditch the headphones and...
By federal law enforcement, you mean the NPS ranger?
I understand there's one ranger with jurisdiction on the entire trail, and that the local law enforcement, city police, sheriffs and the like,...
Benton Mackaye intended the Appalachian Trail as a place people could seek refuge and solace from the alienation of the mechanized, industrial, consumer culture.
And so they are. Rich or poor....
It's best to go with your intuition about odd folks.
Your gut is usually right and it's better to err on the side of safety in all cases.
But seriously.
Making patches and creating and reading blogs actually contributes to climate change by consuming energy that's generated by the combustion of fossil fuels.
Twenty-one thousand...
I prefer a warm and shallow sandy sea environment, myself.
REUNITE GONDWANALAND!
That's a really bad article.
In the second sentence alone, the alarmist rhetoric is dialed up to eleven, using words meant to create fear in most people.
"... experts estimate that 25 percent of...
Red touch yellow, kill a fellow.
Red touch black, you're all right, Jack.
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/blog/red-touch-yellow.html
Big blue, 10 by 12 feet, from Lowe's.
Seven feet of camper's cord off each corner, each with small bungies crimped into a loop for shock cording (Corner grommet, looped bungie cord, campers cord...
That's really their burden, not mine or yours or anybody else's.
They're kids. They don't know what they don't know, whether their backgrounds are Ivy League or Pig Pen.
Like most people, they...
For the past four years, I've gone with a group of guys and their sons on a Father's Day three-day weekend hike somewhere on the AT. I think my friends' boys were about ten when we started these...
You're already banking considerable resentment into the relationship.
Talk to him and tell him you're going.
Go.
If the marriage is worth keeping, it'll be there later and just as strong.
If not,...
WHERE's Minnie when we NEED him? :D
[And nobody say, "Working for BP in the Gulf of Mexico, last I heard!"]
That's exactly what I was thinking:
Thin nylon dress socks = counterintuitive.
But I've found it to be true.
In his book about his first thru hike, Walking with Spring, Earl Shaffer writes...
In tent with me or on mouse hangers at shelters.
Smartwool light hikers in cold or cool weather and cheap men's lightweight nylon dress socks (from wal-mart or similar store) in warmer weather. The lighter your socks are, the cooler and dryer your...
Hiker?
Proof please.
In the heat of summer, the rattlesnakes hunt mainly at night.
I heard of someone who tried night hiking in the heat of summer and gave it up because of all the snakes out in the night. I'd expect...
... and it's attached to a lanyard with an LED micro light and a whistle.
Swiss Army Classic SD, the smallest knife with a blade, tweezers and scissors. It rides in a pouch on my pack waist belt.
This incident should provide incentive not to road walk.
Like the pub dudes said in American Werewolf in London,
"Keep to the mooooooooers, stay off the roooooads."
There are monsters on the...
The facts as I understand them:
The shootings happened on the Blue Ridge Parkway about ten days ago, about four miles south of the Humpback Rocks area.
The victims were not on the AT and were...
Ha!
I wore a pair of Asics runners NOBO out of Harpers Ferry and did something like 106 miles in six days up past Boiling Springs. At Duncannon, I switched back to my heavier Dunham Nimbles for the...