The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
The Trail Provides is an inspiring thru-hiking memoir-a winding journey of companionship, lessons learned, dreams and reality, and leaving everything behind for transformation, insight, and self-discovery.
One man's journey to peace and freedom on the Appalachian Trail
With breathtaking descriptions and humorous anecdotes from his 2,176-mile journey along the Appalachian Trail, Paul Stutzman reveals how immersing himself in nature and befriending fellow hikers helped him recover from a devastating loss.
An Austrian 🇦🇹 mountain stream . Holiday memory ! Lovely walk up to the Jamtal glacier near Galtür . Happy Saturday everyone 👋💚 #photography#travel#hiking#landscape
I guess I gotta learn this platform. Oof being introverted is hard AF.
Latest trip outside was amazing though. Rare for sysadmin like me(jk) #nature#hiking
Ghost pipe! Such weird and lovely little saprophytes. (And while I know they’re perennial plants, my brain still tries to convince me they’re a fungus, every time) #hiking#flowers#BloomScrolling
For those who don't already know: OpenStreetMap.org is an alternative to Google maps.
It's not a great alternative! For instance, minor spelling changes can stymie its capability to find an address. Like, I was looking for an address where the street name had the word "Brook" in it. But OpenStreetMap had it as "Brk", and I couldn't get results using "Brook". I had to zoom into the area in question to realize that they just had a different spelling.
It's probably not super accessible either, I don't know.
But, it's open source and you can sign up to contribute or correct. And if you're into hiking it's going to be a treasure trove for you!
More to come soon, but I successfully completed the most intense and challenging hike in my life up Bootjack Peak (https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/bootjack-mountain) this past Thursday. 3,900 foot climb to one of the most incredible vantage points of the Central Cascades including a big view of Mt. Rainier. My body is sore. It feels like I ran a marathon. Good thing my stay has a hot tub.
Had a run-in with a farmer this morning while walking on open access land and it's really wound me up. Apparently, I was not permitted to access said land through an open gate directly from a public highway and should instead have used another gate ~1km away. I cannot find any legislation dealing with actually accessing access land, tho' the Ramblers Assn. say you can even climb walls to get in. 🤷♂️
Anyone know the CROW Act for #England well enough to pass comment? #walking#hiking#Right2Roam