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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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Stephen Ausherman has worked as a public health assistant in Iraq, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania, a teacher in Korea and China, and a journalist in India and the United States. He was a Writer-in-Residence at Buffalo National River in Arkansas, Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, and Bernheim Forest in Kentucky. His books include Restless Tribes, an award-winning collection of travel stories, and Fountains of Youth, a novel. Born in China and raised in North Carolina, Ausherman took an unscheduled detour to Albuquerque in 1996. He has lived there ever since.
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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...
A while ago I got an email from my friend, Brad, who asked if he could make pulled pork into a dehydrated meal for the trail. I wrote him back and included the following recipe from my trail cookbook.Chipotle Pork with Toasted Tortill...
If you take FR68 east of Dugas (which is not actually a town, but the remains of a settlement crumbling on what is now private ranch land) you will come to a Y. Your decision: take the easy road (right) towards the Salt Flats “cam...
Who doesn t have seasonal affective disorder these days? Record-breaking rains are turning me into a very dull girl. I escaped to the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust on Friday, shirking all other responsibilities to enjoy brief...
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