Sending huge loving hugs and eternal admiration to the duo who so very safely & humbly ascended the loftiest peaks year after year after year with love in their hearts, joy in their smiles, and friendship first and foremost. Sending so much love to John my friend - you were the best dog father...
Sobering consequences for medically lean mountain recreation areas
https://apple.news/AzG4DClkJQa2W9dkU2n90Mg
From the Washington Post
4/1/2020
“Tourists brought prosperity to an Idaho ski valley. They also brought covid-19.
The snow-capped peaks of Idaho’s Wood River Valley are a magnet for...
Keeping Nat park and monuments open as long as they did was the absolutely worst idea possible, case in point Northern AZ Hospital in Flagstaff AZ, a 200 bed hospital, the largest between Grand Canyon, Pheonix and Salt Lake City is AT capacity with COVID-19 patients...Moab critical access...
For all those flocking to trail heads citing they know better/are safer/better informed/listening to the gov't (lol) I say, "how's that been working out for you?"
This health care worker is here to offer a stark message - you don't know better, you are not better, you are not more entitled, you...
Hey Skiguy - thanks - that’s actually what I was hoping to do - drive to Asheville, then Cherokee, then start at the Southernmost terminous. Hike/drive camp to Asheville then continue northward until I get bored or it’s time to drive home ��
It sounds like you’ve done this...
Hello! I’m in the early planning stages of a four or five day trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC next month-looking for info/suggestions for campground & “must see” hikes. We are generally planning to begin around Blowing Rock and exit somewhere near the VA border.
Questions for those...
Just heard back from Moosehead Pinnacle (Link above in post #4)
Frenchtown Rd to Gate where Logan Brook TH is graded, well used and in excellent shape as of today.
Happy Trails!
I actually did the Lincoln Slide to a north Owlie BW for my Bachelorette Party (bachelorettes were Jeremy Clark, Eric Rathbun and Patrick LaFrenier AKA Forestgnome) and I didn't find any of it to be what I would describe as the most difficult routes.
One that I haven't tried because I do think...