sectionhiker — Piece of Mind I carry a Spot Satellite GPS Messenger these days to give my wife piece of mind when I'm solo backpacking or winter hiking and mountaineering. It's not a perfect solution, but it works well enough for me to still use it. Read on. While the Satellite Messenger...
10000birds — Every other year, a large chunk of my family (my wife’s mother’s side) rents a fancy house on a fancy beach somewhere on the East Coast. We’ve been to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and DownEast Acadia in Maine as well as New York’s Finger Lakes and the Jersey shore, but apparently...
10000birds — You may remember that almost exactly a month ago I ran a short post asking about connections between America’s Wetland Foundation and big oil. It was pretty obvious that some major greenwashing was going on, and, of course, it was. Now The Huffington Post has picked up on the story...
gobackpacking — This is a guest post by Caroline Eubanks. If you’d like a guest post on Go Backpacking, please read more here. It’s the same old story- You arrive at a hostel. You look around at the other travelers, hoping for some piece of familiarity that you can use as a catalyst for...
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sectionhiker — If you stick with this backpacking thing long enough, there will come a time when everyone in your family and all of your friends refuse to hike with you because you hike too fast or too far in a given day. When that happens you are going to have to...
10000birds — Beer, firearms, testosterone, and birds are a combination that is somehow always combustible. So it was this past Saturday, when six drunken yahoos on a beach southwest of Seattle shot ten gulls and a crow. They apparently lured the birds in with hot dogs. Sharnelle Fee, director of the [wildlife] center,...
lightbackpacking — I just did a video on ultralight backpacking camp shoes — shoes that make steam crossings easier, give you more comfort around the campfire. A email from Backpacker Magazine highlights the new Teva Illums, $50 flip flops (a lot of money) with a light built in. Backpacker says they are...
10000birds — After a great half-day of birding on Saturday out in Suffolk County in eastern Long Island I decided to stay closer to home and try to track down some birds recently reported from Jamaica Bay’s East Pond. The shorebird mecca has been difficult to access this year because the water...
mybackpackingbuddies — Hello and welcome to traveling Central America! This website will give you the full instructions to safely and successfully travel from the U.S through Mexico to Panama, whether you’re driving it or hiking it. I will tell you everything you need to know, as well as the most important tips that...
montucky.wordpress — Four miles just about due North of Cabin Lake, 1,500 feet higher and also in the Cube Iron-Silcox roadless area is a peak called Mt Headley, upon which, in 1928, the Forest Service built a cupola style lookout cabin. The peak can be accessed from Cabin lake by trail 450...
10000birds — Do you love your birds of summer? Enjoy them while they last; depending on where you live, they’ll be departing before you know it. Increase the pleasure of your special bird sightings by bragging about them here. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend. While I found the hunting Ospreys and soaring Brown Pelicans...
mybackpackingbuddies — Hello and welcome to traveling Central America! This website will give you the full instructions to safely and successfully travel from the U.S through Mexico to Panama, whether you’re driving it or hiking it. I will tell you everything you need to know, as well as the most important tips that...
gobackpacking — Phnom Penh's popular backpacker hangout is Boeung Kak Lake, where cheap accommodations are plentiful, and the sunset views go best with a cold beer. --------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
theadventurelife — Odds are that you’ve bought something from Backcountry.com. The online retailer that started in a spare bedroom in a Park City, Utah, townhouse is ubiquitous in the world of outdoor gear. So, too, is its daily blog, the Goat–odds are that you’ve been entertained, informed, maybe even LOLed, perhaps on...
theadventurelife — Yours truly is, technically speaking, on vacation. Four of us are Griswolding in the ultimate adventure vehicle some 1,300 miles from home, and despite the 24/7 demands of the modern media monkey, it’s pretty sweet. Turns out there is science behind the benefits we draw from vacations, and research shows...
10000birds — It turns out that the 400 Canada Geese recently rounded up in Prospect Park and gassed to death are only the tip of the iceberg. New York State has plans to kill two-thirds of the state’s population of Canada Geese, or 170,000 of the state’s estimated 250,000 geese. Copyright 2009 ...
yosemiteblog — If you’ve have enough of Yosemite’s Paul Vasquez and his double rainbow video don’t watch this. But if you want to see Paul one on one with Jimmy Kimmel wearing a shirt that says “Jimmy’s Boyfriend” and explaining how he wasn’t high when he shot THAT video (but was in...
10000birds — The United States Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, has announced that the votes aren’t there to act on climate change legislation this year. Why? Because no Republican senators would vote on the right side of history. So another year goes by, this one likely to be the hottest year in...
montucky.wordpress — The last of the trail scenes. It’s hard to leave a place when it looks this inviting. A flat area above the switchbacks. There are always the small things too. Western Meadowrue, Thalictrum occidentale Away from the roads, the old Forest Service signage is still in excellent condition. I’m not sure what this plant is, but...
yosemiteblog — I really don’t have much to say about this photo other than IT’S THE MOST INSANELY FREAKIN’ COOL PHOTO EVER!…and uh…yeah that pretty much sums it up. Don’t forget to visit Robin’s site, CaliforniaPhotogs.com. Nice job, Robin. Photo by Robin Black. Related posts:Photo of the Day: Mono Lake Sunset by Robin Black Photo of...
10000birds — With the end of July drawing nigh, the time has come to shift your summer (or winter, depending on your relationship to the Equator) into overdrive. Make this weekend count! What are your plans this weekend and will you be birding? Please share your plans in the comments below. I am...
gobackpacking — Cartagena’s charming colonial architecture helped earn it UNESCO World Heritage status. The old city is filled with enough character and colorful facades to keep any photographer engaged day after day. View down a typical street in walled area of Cartagena. Weathered and worn down buildings await renovation throughout the city. Not your average corner...
10000birds — …only since my wonderful visit to the Bavarian Alps back in early June (when I co-led a Wildlife Travel tour) you’d hardly know it. I’ve hardly posted a darn thing (and actually still haven’t posted the last day in Bavaria yet, or posted the Ptarmigan gallery I’ve been meaning to...
yosemiteblog — The Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Florencia Marchetti. A Eugene, Oregon couple has filed a lawsuit against Yosemite National Park after a park worker felled a tree onto the Tioga Road crushing the plaintiffs car as they were passing by. The suit says no warning signs were posted on...
yosemiteblog — Map: Wild and prescribed fires for July 21, 2010. Courtesy NPS. Two lightning caused fires were discovered Monday along the north rim of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne. Smoke was reported visible from the east near the Waterwheel Fall area. The fires are believed to have been caused by a...