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Looping around Turtle Rock

One of the cooler rock formations I've encountered came on a recent trip to Laramie, Wyoming, and the surrounding countryside. Tucked into the 2.2-million acre Medicine Bow National Forest is the Turtle Rock Trail. The 3-plus mile loop completely encircles a cluster of large granite rock shapes. According to geology websites, [...]

By | October 21st, 2014|Comments Off on Looping around Turtle Rock

On Walden Pond

When Henry David Thoreau wandered into the woods on July 4, 1845, to start his live-in-nature experiment, the setting was a fairly young forest around a pond that had been formed more than 10,000 years earlier by glaciers in the eastern Massachusetts countryside. It is considered a great example of [...]

By | May 30th, 2014|3 Comments

Hiking on The Big Island (yes, Hawai’i)

Steam vents at Volcano National Park My calendar of hikes for the past month has gone something like this: Annadel. Shiloh. Annadel. Hawai'i. Annadel. Annadel. Not the most varied of treks, but that one in the middle was a nice detour from the usual trails. During a recent [...]

By | May 20th, 2014|Comments Off on Hiking on The Big Island (yes, Hawai’i)

A 265-foot-high waterfall worth seeing

Recently, I checked out Wallace Falls, a series of nine waterfalls near Seattle.

By | June 21st, 2013|Comments Off on A 265-foot-high waterfall worth seeing

Recalling the days of the Confederacy

tnhill

If I have a 'bucket list' - and some days, I feel one is definitely in order - I'm not sure if completing the AT would be on it. When I lived not far from the Appalachian Trail, I did a few hikes on it and romanticized the notion of doing the whole Maine to Georgia passage at one point. I suspect.....

By | October 14th, 2009|2 Comments

How city folks hike

Tennessee River, Chattanooga, TN Off traveling again, but did take a long hike all around downtown Chattanooga. The city, which is in the Tennessee mountains, has a great riverfront, so started out there, walked along the banks and cut over the Tennessee River on a fairly new pedestrian [...]

By | February 1st, 2009|Comments Off on How city folks hike

Maybe the bells scared them off

Flat Top Mountain, Chugach State Park, Anchorage, AK Was in Alaska tending to some family business. (Not nearly as dramatic or Mafia-like as it sounds. Just helping a relative out.) But even though it was a quick trip, it was my first chance to see Alaska in the [...]

By | December 6th, 2008|Comments Off on Maybe the bells scared them off