Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Wildlife can be as as potentially dangerous as people, but like people, they usually aren’t dangerous until poked, prodded, or cajoled. The Golden Rule of Wildlife Encounters: Leave wildlife in peace, and you might leave in one piece. Don’t expect wildlife to treat you as you want to be treated, even humans have problems with […]
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It’s getting cold, but there are alternative to bird down: Prima Loft Reviews- down-alternative-comforters Thermore- down-alternatives Aerogel Down Comforters: Animal Cruelty Dependent Upon Where You Buy FAO on Down feathers Science continues to discover new insights into the world of how animals think, act, and feel. While geese are not parrots, the work of Irene
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Why Bike Lovers Should Be Happy About ‘Bikelash‘ “[Bikelash] describes the resistance and hostility that the increasing presence of bikes on city streets [and trails] sometimes produces in people who don’t ride bikes. That hostility can take many forms…”
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The 10 Most Dangerous Hikes Dangerous US hikes Most dangerous mountain bike trails in the world Mount Hua Shan Zhangjiajie-Tianmen Mountain
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/travel/restoring-acadias-trails.html?_r=0 “For decades, a small cult of hikers mapped and walked the lost trails of Acadia[, Maine], scouring the softwood for clearings, a cairn or granite steps covered in moss. Nature takes quickly, and many were completely lost. But grant money rebuilds even faster, and in 1998, a local organization called Friends of Acadia saved
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story link: guess who’s been waiting in the lobby for a hundred million years “Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and
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Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Mountain Interval. 1920. The [Trail] Not Taken TWOÂ [trails] diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just
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Nature recycles, Gore-Tex will not. Detox-Outdoors! outdoor-clothing-ethical-living greener-rain-gear What also bugs me, beyond the eco-fail, is it seems Gore-Tex likes monopolies, not “freed” markets. Nice to see that their reign is in decline as Gore Tex is being phased out, and enviros and new products are helping its demise. Serves them right. Gore Tex was
gpx track (~15 miles): link I took a break from the east coast to pay a visit to my old stomping grounds and do something I put off for years while living in So Cal, bagging Mt. San Jacinto peak. The day couldn’t have been much nicer. On the flight in I saw our next
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“…in the 1870s and 1880s there was another sports craze sweeping the nation: competitive walking. “Watching people walk was America’s favorite spectator sport,” Matthew Algeo says in his new book, Pedestrianism.” “Champagne was considered a stimulant. And a lot of trainers — these guys had trainers — advised their pedestrians to drink a lot of