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The Summer heat is here. It’s time to level some professional advice as to where to hike and camp to make the most of your time out in the sun. Or you can get a head start on your plans for Fall and Winter and start planning your ...
Next week, May 11-15, has been declared Bike-to-Work Week by the League of American Bicyclists. If you can’t consider pedal power every day for a week, maybe you could oil up your chain and join everyone on that Friday, May 15th f...
David Womack’s latest post makes me glad that warmer weather is finally here, in my part of the country. Not too mention it sounds like a great ride (especially for those of us without capes in our closets!).And how can his bird&#...
I love the story Tony Padegimas uses to open up his post:It is said that when the cynic philosopher Diogenes, who, among other things, was the first philosopher of the Go-Lite movement, saw a young boy drinking from a stream with ...
From the land of the Southern Long Leaf Pines… Happy Arbor Day!The tree-loving organizers of Arbor Day have compiled a list of things that you can do to help honor the day and all the leafy goodness around us. But what’s REA...
As a publisher of outdoor recreation titles, Earth Day means a great deal to us. To help celebrate it, we’re happy to offer a 35% discount on ALL our titles for one day only.Grab one of our guides and then hit the trail, get out...
Let s give it up for the American Hiking Society s great success in pushing the U.S. Congress to pass (on March 25) the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act. Not impressed yet? Well. . . just think: Protection for two million acres o...
The other day we posted the Wilderness Press catalog online and today we’re unleashing the Menasha Ridge Press and Clerisy Press joint-catalog into the wild as well.So check it out and pass it along.Once you get chance to ‘f...
In the world of websites and widgets Scribd is conquering much of the clutter out there. They are proving to be a good fit for us as well. That’s why we have uploaded this season’s catalogs to their system for folks to disco...
Author Steve Ausherman maintains a list of updates and changes to his popular hiking book 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque. If you follow the link, you will find map supplements, new photos and additional coordinates to compliment ...
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This is our man in the Pacific Northwest. He's got a new book One Night Wilderness Portland. Check it out!
Douglas Lorain’s family moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1969,and he has been obsessively hitting the trails of his home region ever since. Over the years he calculates that he has logged well over 30,000 trail miles in this corner of the continent, and despite a history that includes being bitten by a rattlesnake, shot at by a hunter, charged by a grizzly bear, and donating countless gallons of blood to “invertebrate vampires,” he happily sees no end in sight.
Lorain is a photographer and recipient of the National Outdoor Book Award. His books cover only the best trips from the thousands of hikes and backpacking trips he has taken throughout Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. His photographs have been featured in numerous magazines, calendars, and books.He is described by the Seattle Times as the "next great Northwest trail guide author."
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[Part of our ongoing series of Behind-the-Hike for Day and Overnight Hikes in the Tonto National Forest]Hell’s Hole Trail #284 is mostly within the Salome Wilderness. It is concurrent witht the longer but less famous Denton Trail ...
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Philadelphia features over 25 hikes under 3 miles. Mini-hikes help keep the momentum going when time constraints prevent a longer day-long hike, and most of them can be done in less than an hour or two. You can...
Memories are made when a leviathan stretches out his barbed covered neck and snatches bits of fish food into his purplish-green beak that and squeals of delight.You too can amaze your kids with a few fish food pellets Nestled into t...
Our monthly round-up of news affecting hiking and camping in general and the Tonto NF in particular.Fire Restrictions Have Been Lifted in the Tonto National Forest - just in time for the hottest weekend of the year. Early monsoon humidi...
We can t change things we ve said and done in the past, we can t change how other people think and feel, and we sure can t change the rains that still plague us at night here in the Philly area. There have been so many thunderst...
Geocaching is a worldwide craze that promises to greatly expand your hiking range and self-assurance on wilderness trails, while at the same time providing some great adventure. Geocaching is a one-size-fits-all outdoor activity. Yo...
The Summer heat is here. It’s time to level some professional advice as to where to hike and camp to make the most of your time out in the sun. Or you can get a head start on your plans for Fall and Winter and start planning your ...
[Part of the ongoing series of behind-the-hike-descriptions for the D&O Tonto Guide.]This was a series of trails I combined into one big hike for the book. The Sierra Ancha Wilderness is somewhat obscure and hard to get to (there ar...
Before I started using a GPS compass, I was lost all the time. Sometimes it was fun getting lost, challenging myself to solve the mystery and find my way back to the trailhead as I noted landmarks along the way. One of my favorite parks...
After our dayhike to Tule Mesa, Ben and I drove to Salt Flat campground and spent the night.The Prescott National Forest has vague criteria for what is and is not a fee area. Essentially, though, it boils down to water, toilets and some...
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