Authorities are advising visitors to Lake Mead National Recreation Area to be alert and secure their belongings after a series of vehicle break-ins in the area. Park Rangers at the recreation area are investigating several recent break-ins that occurred while cars were parked and left unattended near some of the park’s popular hiking trails. “Criminals are...
Learn MoreForesters are on the watch for a potential invasion of an insect that has decimated millions of acres of forest across the West and in Canada, with continued evidence showing the mountain pine bark beetle is on the march into Nevada and the Sierra. The danger, Nevada State Forester Pete Anderson said, is significant. “It’s a serious deal and everybody is keeping an eye...
Learn MoreIt’s one of the remotest national parks in the nation. But once you get to Great Basin National Park, you’ll find an oasis in the desert. The park’s geography of extensive caves, streams and alpine terrain rising to 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak offers a striking contrast to visitors after traversing hundreds of miles of rocky sagebrush. It’s gorgeous, beautiful country, but...
Learn MoreLake Tahoe and its surroundings are resplendent with geological wonders and biological diversity to boot. A visitor can get a sample of Tahoe’s natural bounty by car or bike, but to get an authentic taste of Tahoe, to savor Big Blue in all its glory, it’s best to put on a pair of trail shoes or hiking boots and explore it by foot. The following five hikes,...
Learn MoreWhen Chevy Chase’s long-suffering Clark Griswold took his family on a Las Vegas vacation a few years back, there were plenty of laughs all around for movie audiences, especially when the beleaguered Griswold clan toured the famous Hoover Dam. It was hardly high-brow comedy … but you knew that before you walked into the theater. The Hoover Dam tour hasn’t changed...
Learn MoreLooking down on a 12,000-foot peak through the gaping side of a helicopter, I breathe the coldest, thinnest air I have ever breathed. Somewhere out there, three hikers and a dog are willing us to see them, to spot their molecule of color on Mount Charleston’s miles of November snow and shadow. Clouds menace, driven by icy winds that pummel our 1973 Huey like it’s a...
Learn MoreIn 28 years with the FBI, Gary Smith never cracked a case as cold as this one. While hiking with friends in Red Rock Canyon, Smith spotted something strange in an outcrop: smudgy impressions that hinted at three-toed feet striding across the orange sandstone. “I knew that they were tracks, but I didn’t know what they were tracks of,” the 69-year-old...
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 MoreSouthern Nevadans who enjoy the outdoors are willing to endure summer’s stop-drop-and-roll heat because they know the sun will eventually retreat from the Mojave Desert and give way to perfect fall days. Those days have arrived, and that means bicyclists and hikers, joggers, dog walkers and picnickers are heading to the just-finished River Mountains Trail, a...
Learn MoreAbout 350 air miles southeast of Portland, the West Little Owyhee River, a rarely visited tributary of the better-known Owyhee River, has cut a squiggle of a gorge through sandy expanses of sage and rye. The canyon is surely among the most inaccessible places in the West. At its loneliest, the nearest human living under a proper roof is about 24 hours away by four-wheel...
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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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