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If you had tried to use that tent, the urethane coating would have peeled off the inside like some four-day-old 2nd degree sunburn, leaving you with a worthless tent anyway. All those tents from the...

Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga for the sixth time. Also reread Don DeLillo's Mao II, a prescient novel written in 1991.

Hey BumpJumper, just hike with a bunch of "I Climbed Mt. Dora" bumper stickers and everyone will know you have a cool sense of humor, at least. Just try to keep a straight face when telling them...

Have compass with you. One socked-in October day, we spent about an hour wandering around the bald with no sense of the cardinal points or which direction the trail headed once we came upon it again....

Svea 123--32 yrears and still lighting off better in cold weather than most of the new stoves.

They weren't their real trail names, but we created superheroes out of "Acne Man," "Zit Woman," and their little dog "Pimples" for obvious reasons. His back was was pretty gross so he was aka...

My "trial" name is probably "the accused" or "the party of the first part," but my "trail" name is altogether different. Ah, the subtle tyranny of poor spelling!:-?

Perhaps the most elegaic poem for a departed pet is this one by Robinson Jeffers. For Arlo as well as Haig:

The House Dog's Grave(for Haig, an English Bulldog)
I've changed my ways a little; I...

I just finished David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2006) and am now dividing time between E. O. Wilson's The Future of Life (2002) and rereading John McPhee's delightful Oranges (1966).

If you are flying out of an "up to date" security airport, be prepared for the chemical sensors to flag your luggage if any fuel residues or other things have left a trace. My duffle was gone over...

Nothing beats a highly compliant gastro-intestinal tract. Start young, travel far and often, drink and recover. And don't be a picky eater.

Growing up in third-world interior Florida a...

Where you headed for the night?
- "Ahh I don't know yet - It's my husband's/wife's turn to decide"
(look over your shoulder like you are expecting him any moment).


This could be a geat...

Compared to the coast, the humidity will seem markedly lower whatever the temperature. You'll still see comfortable temperatures in the high 60s after sunset, so sleeping won't be a problem. Two...

Deciduous trees are great dehumidifiers, so pitch your camp in a good copse of trees a little away from the water if you can. Speaking as someone who grew up in Florida in an un-airconditioned house...

I knew a guy whose cat rode comfortably in his car and went hiking with him, moving through the underbrush as he walked. He'd trained the cat from the time it was a kitten to come to the sound of...

The perfect trail cracker is a third-generation Floridian who doesn't have any desire to buy the mountaintop he's hiking across. He loves the subtleties of Florida, but enjoys a brief sojourn to the...

This is a legitimate debate with economic as well as ethical consquences. I agree with supporting the local economy even if it means a few dollars more if, and only if, the management of the local...

Excellent idea! If you find "Reflections" too, pardon the pun, pedestrian, why not name this online literary journal "Peregrination," which the Oxford English Dictionary offers as one of its...

I'm deeply appreciative of Sgt. Rock's willingness to share his practical experience and to keep this thread on task, for the most part. However, this topic runs the risk of sounding like "bulimic...

I've always found the Wild Turkey pretty smooth, but the bottle could be dangerous if it was flying toward my head. All seriousness aside, we used have a turkey that lived on my grandparents...

Alternate Feet When Walking

You might also want to stay up with NOAA weather long range tracking of tropical systems, as the landfalling hurricanes, or even tropical storms, have a way of wringing themselves out over the NC...

That "oil addiction" extends to the various plastics and synthetic materials you wear and carry with you into the woods under the delusion you've broken free, so try not to be overly sanctimonious....