Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
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 […]
“…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
Link: National Geographic-worlds best trails Also see this: Top 55 Long Distance Hiking Trails in the United States, I’ve done some of or part of these east and west.
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After a reunion with neighborhood friends from my childhood in the Outer Banks to surf, I headed home to California with a full plate of Epics on the menu for the return trip west (trip out east). Details to each trail journey is in the list below: Douthat, Virginia Southern Traverse, Virginia Kerr-Scott, North Carolina
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Bravo for the NYNJTC for putting this on. While mostly focused on hiking, per their mission statement, it was great that TC wanted to hold this event, for the obvious reason that hiking is still done on multi-use trails, and the number of multi-use trails is growing. This is due in part to demand, as
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