I think about food when I’m hiking: a lot. And when I get off the trail after a long day hike in the mountains or a backpacking trip, I make a beeline for my favorite after-hike foods: A 20 ounce bottle or two of freezing cold Classic Coke Big bag of Cape Cod Potato Chips [...]
Portable Hammock Stands for Camping by Derek Hansen
No trees for that hammock? No problem. This is irony: I’m a hammock camping fanatic, surrounded by the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in North America, yet I moved into a neighborhood devoid of trees. My entire 2-acre lot is barren, and while I’ve planted a few trees, it will be years before I’ll be able to [...]
The Tradition I Welcome by Keith Foskett
An Annual Ritual It’s a strange attitude but events that happen on a set date every year make me feel that I’m getting older quicker. I resent them, traditions of friends meeting at a certain pub the day before Easter, the habit of a couple of days in Wales come the last weekend of May, [...]
Alone Across Alaska: 1,000 Miles of Wilderness by Buck Nelson
An open ridge-top in the White Mountains rose to meet the tiny Super Cub, then fell away towards the next unnamed creek. Marty, my pilot and old smokejumper buddy, glanced at the instrument panel then studied the open tundra of the next mountainside. We were headed to a tiny fuel cache on a gravel bar [...]
Getting a Grip on the Tahoe Rim Trail by Suzanne Roberts
Like too many young women, my standards for dating in my twenties were not exceptionally high. I wanted a date who could ski and hike and who liked my naughty husky-wolf dog Dylan. That’s about it. I dated men with no job and no aspirations for one. I dated men missing teeth, men who were [...]
RailRiders Raffle: Worst Hiking Clothing Mishap
Rrippppp! 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’d worn out those hiking pants in less than a year and the fabric just wore through. Nothing much to do for such a catastrophic clothing mishap except to [...]
Hiking Through: From Misery to Amazing by Paul Stutzman
On September 7, 2007, my wife of 32 years passed away from cancer. My life as I knew it also ended that day. I had a choice to make. Either lament my misfortune and wallow in pity for years, or make an effort to find peace and meaning in what remained of my life. I [...]
My Pacific Crest Trail Highlights: People and Lack of People by Bob Welch
On 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: the lack of people. But [...]
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