Author Sandra Friend is working on her 12th book about hiking in Florida. For the past several years, Friend has been actively exploring new trails to build content for her website – Florida Hikes – on which she features a new hike each week for subscribers. Friend, who lives in Sanford, said she’s logged more than 3,000 miles on Florida trails since...
Learn MoreThe National Park Service will begin conducting a survey to determine if some areas within the Monongahela National Forest should be made into a national park – something West Virginia doesn’t currently have. The proposed High Allegheny National Park could be formed from lands in the northern area of the Monongahela National Forest, which is already federal...
Learn MoreThe St. Lucie County, Florida Environmental Resources Department’s weekly winter Nature Series with guided, educational hikes returns this December. These free weekly programs run through May and give participants a chance to explore some of the 42 miles of hiking trails located throughout the county’s 7,000 acres of environmentally significant lands. Anyone...
Learn MoreIt might not seem Bart Smith is in a rush to finish hiking the Trail of Tears, but the veteran hiker admits there’s a schedule to keep. Once he finishes his current trek of the main route of the 2,200-mile-long trail system in about one week, Smith will go south to hike the El Camino Real de los Tejas Historic Trail. After Smith walks across part of Louisiana and...
Learn MoreFor those willing to brave a week of single-digit temperatures, the occasional avalanche and the ever-present risk of a hypothermic dunk in the roiling waters hidden underfoot, the Zanskar River, a major tributary of the Indus, becomes a highway connecting Zanskar’s few dozen villages to the rest of the world during a two-month window in the heart of the Himalayan...
Learn MoreTrimble released a suite of apps for outdoor enthusiasts to plan trips and navigate the outdoors. Trimble Outdoors Navigator, available on iPhone and Android devices, is the perfect companion for your hiking, camping or ATV and offroading trips. You can view your location on more than 68,000 topo maps in US and Canada, as well as aerial, terrain, street and hybrid maps....
Learn MoreDoug Bassett doesn’t own a cellphone, and when it comes to studying birds, bugs and trees he’d much rather head outside and into a 14,000-acre classroom called Letchworth State Park than turn on a computer. “The Internet is wonderful, television is wonderful, communication at a touch of a button is wonderful,” said Bassett, 57, Letchworth’s...
Learn MoreThe sport of hiking is no walk in the park. You spend hours climbing and descending hills, which requires strength and endurance. However, even the fittest athletes can suffer swollen knees after hiking. The constant flexing of the knee is often too much for some parts of your body. The most common injuries fall into two categories. The iliotibial band stretches from...
Learn MoreThree-hundred and sixty-eight. Everyone invested in Jeju, S. Korea knows the significance of the number. It’s the amount of oreum, or volcanic cones, dotting the island’s landscape. Some oreum are lined with pristine hiking trails, others are overrun with cattle. Some have no real paths, others are manned with fire watchers. Some are closed temporarily, others are closed...
Learn MoreAfter a summer of fire and floods, officials at Bandelier National Monument reopened the park’s backcountry trails to hikers on Thanksgiving Day. Visitors were welcomed to explore the northern New Mexico park, but Superintendent Jason Lott said they should be prepared for rough conditions. Flames from the largest blaze in the state’s recorded history passed...
Learn MoreThe 3-mile hiking trail in the Wilson Canyon area near Reno, NV, planned since 2005, is now open to the public. The trail is on the south side of Wilson Canyon, southeast of the Walker River bridge. It begins at the trailhead situated at the parking area at the west end of the canyon, traverses over the ridge to the east, runs north back to the river and then along the...
Learn MoreWhen you hear Triple Crown most often horse racing comes to mind but in the case of Stephanie White, 1990 graduate of Medomak Valley High School in Maine, it means hiking the top three trails in the United States. A school trip with biology teacher Pam Ramsey to Mt. Katahdin when White was a sophomore in high school spurred her hiking adventures. Ramsey was telling the...
Learn MoreIf you’re planning to load up on starches, sweets and buttery mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving, do yourself a favor and plan a big hike afterward to burn off the calories. And on Thanksgiving weekend, what is more appropriate than a hike through Butter Gap? The Carolina Mountain Club is conducting a guided hike in the area this weekend, but with some map perusing and...
Learn MoreOne of the great joys of hiking is spending time with the trees. In 1997, when 24-year-old Julia “Butterfly” Hill climbed a tree and didn’t come down for two years, many thought she was crazy. Julia resided near the top of the giant redwood she called “Luna” for 728 days, thus saving it – and a three acre protective area around the tree – from destruction. She also...
Learn MoreHikers taking the trek across Grandfather Mountain’s NC ridgeline can now enjoy five new ladders on the Grandfather Trail. The new ladders on MacRae Cliff replace the old ones that had been up for decades on what many people consider to be one of the most exciting spots along the ridgeline hike. The five ladders are all in a row and transport hikers along a steep...
Learn MoreAmid the hectic hassles of daily life – job pressures, commuter traffic, 24-hour news channels, endless politics, etc. – there’s a quiet escape: the pure simplicity of walking in the woods. It’s free. It’s serene. It restoreth the soul. Especially in West Virginia, the opportunity is all around us in jumbled hills, shady ravines, winding...
Learn MoreAs the only guide to focus solely on the Asheville area, Five-Star Trails: Asheville: Your Guide to the Area’s Most Beautiful Hikes presents trails for the hiker in all of us. Whether readers are novices, families, experienced hikers, or backpackers, this guide is sure to inspire them to hit the trails. Five-Star Trails: Asheville: Your Guide to the Area’s...
Learn MoreThe thrill of summer is long gone. The warm air breaks for a cool breeze and the spirit for adventure breaks with it. Hiking boots get thrown to the back of the closet and camping gear gets a special corner in the back of the garage. It’s time to hide indoors for another winter. It’s no surprise people don’t hike as much in the off-season. Winter...
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Donated to the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Florence in 1996, the Florence Nature Preserve is 600 acres on the slopes of Little Pisgah Mountain. With more than five miles of public hiking trails, much of them along a beautiful mountain stream, the preserve contains old growth forest, views of Hickory Nut Gorge, remnants of old cabins, and...
Learn MoreThe dramatic gorges, waterfalls and forests of the Southern Cumberland Plateau 80 miles southeast of Nashville have drawn Middle Tennessee residents for more than a century to enjoy cool mountain air and clean water. But with thousands of acres of privately owned timberland poised to be sold, the natural playground for sightseers, rock climbers, hikers and hunters is...
Learn MoreVolunteers from throughout the community are needed this Sunday for a unique partnership that will involve nearly 60 soldiers from the National Guard unit, members of RGISC and Laredo, Tx city staff. Civilian volunteers and soldiers will haul off debris and trash from the Chacon Creek bed and trail route. The targeted area will be the stretch from Hwy 359 to S. Zapata...
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I am Jeff Clark, founder of Internet Brothers, producer of this blog, and passionate about hiking. My regular hiking companions have designated me the lead hiker, so I suppose that makes me the slowest Meanderthal. I live in Western NC near the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests are just out my door, so the content will focus on these areas, but let me know what you would like to see on the site. 
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