Did you know that Saturday, September 26 is National Public Lands Day? This year is the 16th annual celebration and reason for all of us to get outside and volunteer to improve our public lands. Last year 120,000 people across America participated in National Public Lands Day, maintaining trails, removing non-native plants, planting trees, and …
Do you want some inspirational wallpaper on your computer desktop? After poking around the PBS website to find out more about Ken Burns new TV series The National Parks, I found some really great high quality FREE wallpaper downloads! Check out the wallpaper here. My favorite is Yosemite Valley in Winter, followed by Mount Rainier. …
The Ansel Adams Gallery is hosting a National Park Photography Contest, with the theme: “U.S. NATIONAL PARKS, LANDMARKS & MONUMENTS”. The contest begins on October 1, 2009, and has really great prizes including a $500 Ansel Adams Gallery gift certificate (grand prize), as well as first, second and third prizes. Check back on October 1st …
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Want a chance to win a free trip for 2 on a Sierra Club outdoor adventure, plus a one year supply of Honest Tea? I sure do! Good luck! There will be drawings on September 30, 2009, January 4, 2010, and March 31, 2010. Sierra Club/Honest Tea Outdoor Adventure Trip
Do you want one book that will cover almost everything you’ll ever need to know about hiking, backpacking, snow travel, rock climbing, and technical climbing? Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is it! While I can’t say I’ve read the sections about technical climbing (I don’t plan on climbing Everest or K2 any time soon!), …
As you probably saw in my blog post a couple of months ago, Touching the Void is an amazing and hard to believe story of two young mountaineers who came face to face with death in the Peruvian Andes. While I prefered the book to the movie, the movie has the added benefit of interviews …
I’ve received links to this video from numerous friends, and every time I see it I yearn to learn (ha that rhymes!) more about this trail! Apparently it is the El Caminito del Rey (I took Spanish in high school so I can translate that 😉 ….”The King’s Little Pathway”) and it is in Málaga, …
How about if I can only drink out of Camelbaks? I’m not a hikerholic then, am I? 🙂 Special thanks to the very talented and creative hiker, Geolyn “Boots” Carvin, for letting me share her hilarious cartoons. Her website, On the Trail with Boots McFarland, has many more funny cartoons about the trail adventures of …
Are you looking for an alternative to DEET and other harsh chemical insect repellents, that are not only bad for the environment but bad for your skin and body? I was given the opportunity to try a new repellent called 45ºN 68ºW, and I put it to a full test on my August backpacking trip …