http://topicfire.com/Outdoor 2013-05-20T01:23:54+00:00 text/html 2013-05-20T04:30:41+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/an-hour-on-the-spring-creek-trail/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/an-hour-on-the-spring-creek-trail/"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3702/8756489752_2947dba33a_b.jpg" /></a><br />A little spare time in the late afternoon, a short drive, cool green shade and flowers. Scarlet Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja miniata Kinnikinnik, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Howell&#8217;s pussytoes, Antennaria howellii Woodland Strawberry, Fragaria vesca Yellow Coralroot, Corallorhiza trifida This encounter made my day! It was the first time that I&#8217;ve encountered this saprophytic orchid. Its greenish tinge suggests... text/html 2013-05-19T05:15:03+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/beyond-the-fairy-slippers/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/beyond-the-fairy-slippers/"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2836/8751666237_954fb1ae2f_b.jpg" /></a><br />Nearly all of my photos result from my frequent wanderings in the mountains and forests of western Montana. The wildflowers in my previous post were encountered on the way to a hike to view the peaks of the Cherry Peak roadless area, something I choose to do at least once... text/html 2013-05-17T09:23:21+00:00 http://sectionhiker.com/ http://sectionhiker.com/railriders-raffle-worst-hiking-clothing-mishap/ <a href="http://sectionhiker.com/railriders-raffle-worst-hiking-clothing-mishap/"><img src="http://sectionhiker-com.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbskeep/2013/04/crotch-blowout.jpg" /></a><br />TweetCrotch BlowoutRrippppp! The crotch of my hiking pants tore open on day two of a six day backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail. Hard to believe, but I&#8217;d worn out those hiking pants in less than a year and the fabric just wore through. Nothing much to do for such... text/html 2013-05-16T03:17:32+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/fairy-slippers-the-little-orchids-called-calypso/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/fairy-slippers-the-little-orchids-called-calypso/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7289/8742241139_241651f2de_b.jpg" /></a><br />A few days ago I mentioned that I had feared that I might have missed seeing Springbeauties this year. I also had that feeling about Fairy Slippers, having seen only two so far. Today as I returned from a hike up beyond Sheep Gap on the old road just north... text/html 2013-05-15T19:02:34+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/hikingsafetytips/ Most Hikers get into trouble for one reason; they fail to adequately prepare themselves for their trip. ,When you are planning a hike, preparation is the key to staying safe. text/html 2013-05-15T09:20:40+00:00 http://sectionhiker.com/ http://sectionhiker.com/my-pacific-crest-trail-highlights-people-and-lack-of-people-by-bob-welch/ <a href="http://sectionhiker.com/my-pacific-crest-trail-highlights-people-and-lack-of-people-by-bob-welch/"><img src="http://sectionhiker-com.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbskeep/2013/04/IMG_1616.jpg" /></a><br />TweetOn my 452-mile hike on Oregon’s stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2011, it dawned on me just short of Summit Lake: in the 60 miles and four days since leaving Crater Lake National Park, I hadn’t seen a single other hiker. I liked that about hiking Oregon’s PCT:... text/html 2013-05-14T23:02:04+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/ammunitionbasics-faq/ Rifle, Handgun & Shotgun Ammunition There are basically two types of ammunition, the cartridge and the shotshell. Rifle and handguns use a cartridge contain a projectile (bullet). Shotguns use a shotshell which contains either a number of small projectiles (known as shot) or a single projectile (known as a slug).... text/html 2013-05-14T14:09:03+00:00 http://sectionhiker.com/ http://sectionhiker.com/the-northern-forest-canoe-trail-in-the-footsteps-of-history-by-sam-brakeley/ <a href="http://sectionhiker.com/the-northern-forest-canoe-trail-in-the-footsteps-of-history-by-sam-brakeley/"><img src="http://sectionhiker-com.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbskeep/2013/04/Northern-Forest-Canoe-Trail-077.jpg" /></a><br />TweetSam and Andy setting out on the NFCT at the western terminus in Old Forge, NYWiping the sweat from my eyes, I grunted as I re-adjusted the canoe on my shoulders. My tumpline (the leather strap running over the top of my head that helps to spread the weight of... text/html 2013-05-13T09:21:02+00:00 http://sectionhiker.com/ http://sectionhiker.com/not-that-kind-of-girl-by-gail-storey/ <a href="http://sectionhiker.com/not-that-kind-of-girl-by-gail-storey/"><img src="http://sectionhiker-com.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbskeep/2013/04/Gail-in-tiara.jpg" /></a><br />TweetGail Storey in a TiaraI was not that kind of girl! I was not the wholesome, athletic type who would hike the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail over the steep mountains of California, Oregon, and Washington. I was an ersatz bad-girl with a checkered past who married a doctor from an... text/html 2013-05-13T03:16:24+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/may-wildflowers/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/may-wildflowers/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7319/8733999080_be514d0460_b.jpg" /></a><br />After the late arrival of warm weather, the wildflowers in this part of Western Montana have been hurrying to catch up with spring. Here are more that have started blooming in May: Miner&#8217;s Lettuce, Claytonia perfoliata Unknown Western Blue Clematis, Clematis occidentalis Heart-leaf Arnica , Arnica cordifolia Fairy Slipper, Calypso Orchid , Calypso bulbosa Falsebox, Mountain... text/html 2013-05-10T13:35:24+00:00 http://sectionhiker.com/ http://sectionhiker.com/raffle-win-a-railriders-hiking-shirt/ <a href="http://sectionhiker.com/raffle-win-a-railriders-hiking-shirt/"><img src="http://sectionhiker-com.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbskeep/2013/04/2010-08-28-ripley-large.jpg" /></a><br />TweetRipley Davenport: Walking Across Mongolia &#8211; Step by SteppeWalking Across Mongolia, an Ultra-Marathon across the Sahara Desert, Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Studying Penguins on the South Pole, Climbing Denali &#8211; many people dream of an Ultimate Adventure. What&#8217;s yours?For example:My Ultimate Adventure would be hiking the whole length of the... text/html 2013-05-09T03:15:58+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/early-morning-jewelry/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/early-morning-jewelry/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7317/8720771679_5e0405dc6f_c.jpg" /></a><br />Field horsetail, Equisetum arvense To see these displaying their jewelry, you must find them at just the right stage of their development and catch them early in the morning after a cool night when the humidity has been just right. For some reason tiny drops of dew will form on them... text/html 2013-05-08T21:31:47+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/euseedregistration-monsanto/ EU Trying to make Seeds illegal and subject to government registration, as the Obama Administration allows Monsanto to patent life in America and kill the small family farm.... text/html 2013-05-08T03:21:15+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fairybells/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fairybells/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7283/8719088790_36a12b1996_b.jpg" /></a><br /> Rough-fruited Fairybells, Disporum trachycarpum text/html 2013-05-08T00:30:56+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/statesfightback-guncontrolnullification/ A showdown between the federal government and the States is heating up as two more States join Kansas in passing Federal Gun Control Nullification Acts. text/html 2013-05-07T14:25:47+00:00 http://yosemiteblog.com/ http://yosemiteblog.com/2013/05/07/hiker-missing-at-top-of-vernal-falls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hiker-missing-at-top-of-vernal-falls <a href="http://yosemiteblog.com/2013/05/07/hiker-missing-at-top-of-vernal-falls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hiker-missing-at-top-of-vernal-falls"><img src="http://yosemiteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/missing-stensby.jpg" /></a><br />If you were in Yosemite National Park last weekend and hiked the Mist Trail you could help find a missing hiker. Yosemite National Park Rangers are asking for everyone&#8217;s help in the search for 73 year old Kenneth Stensby, who set off on a day hike early Sunday morning, May 5,... text/html 2013-05-07T02:30:14+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/todays-flora-fauna/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/todays-flora-fauna/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7353/8715282545_534a8f1ea1_b.jpg" /></a><br />On today&#8217;s walk with the canine member of the family: Prairie Smoke, Old Man&#8217;s Whiskers, Purple Avens, Geum triflorum Field Chickweed, Cerastium arvense Early blue violet, Viola adunca Long-flower Bluebells, Mertensia longiflora Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis text/html 2013-05-06T22:36:03+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/infrastructurethreats-fooddistribution/ Every time a natural disaster hits, we witness firsthand how vulnerable our system really is. During a major food crisis situation, there will be riots in the streets, and that’s probably majorly understating what will happen.... text/html 2013-05-04T00:17:29+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/kansasstatesovereignty/ Kansas Governor Responds to Obama Administration Threats to use Federal Power Against Kansas. He Tells Washington, We will Defend State’s Sovereignty & Our Second Amendment Rights.... text/html 2013-05-03T20:46:24+00:00 http://www.modernhiker.com/ http://www.modernhiker.com/2013/05/03/orange-county-may-charge-hikers-for-rescue/ <a href="http://www.modernhiker.com/2013/05/03/orange-county-may-charge-hikers-for-rescue/"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1406/866199570_3a64232103_m.jpg" /></a><br />Believe me, I would much rather not be writing about out of control wildfires and drugged-out hikers, but &#8230; the Springs Fire just passed 10,000 acres and is only 10% contained, and now Orange County officials are considering charging one of the two teens rescued from Trabuco Canyon in April... [[... text/html 2013-05-03T07:20:28+00:00 http://sectionhiker.com/ http://sectionhiker.com/haiku-raffle-win-a-pair-of-railriders-hiking-pants/ <a href="http://sectionhiker.com/haiku-raffle-win-a-pair-of-railriders-hiking-pants/"><img src="http://sectionhiker-com.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbskeep/2012/04/P1040744.jpg" /></a><br />TweetSkunk Cabbage &#8211; One of the first spring plants to emergeSkunk Cabbage is one of the first plants to bloom in spring time along the east coast of the United States. Known for its pungent smell if you break or tear a leaf, it attracts polinators such bees, beetles and... text/html 2013-05-03T03:32:50+00:00 http://www.modernhiker.com/ http://www.modernhiker.com/2013/05/02/help-the-angeles-national-forest-fire-lookout-association/ <a href="http://www.modernhiker.com/2013/05/02/help-the-angeles-national-forest-fire-lookout-association/"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/225/451546507_4bca151682_m.jpg" /></a><br />So &#8230; you may have noticed Southern California is kind of on fire right now &#8211; a blaze in Ventura County just topped 6500 acres and closed the Pacific Coast Highway, while a smaller fire continues to burn in Riverside County. It seems like last week&#8217;s predictions about the bad... text/html 2013-05-02T21:25:43+00:00 http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/fedsthreatenkansas/ Attorney General Eric holder is Threatening to use Federal Power to stop the State of Kansas from defending their 2nd Amendment Rights. In the process, he's know challenged their State rights which we all know never ends well.... text/html 2013-05-02T04:15:04+00:00 http://montucky.wordpress.com/ http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/aging-so-beautifully/ <a href="http://montucky.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/aging-so-beautifully/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8264/8700005481_d11f09a273_b.jpg" /></a><br />Their petals change to pink or purple as they age. Pacific Trillium, Trillium ovatum  ~ found blooming today at Munson Creek