Articles tagged with hiking:
Jill vs The Volcano
I’m in the back of a taxi speeding down a Managuan highway, spatters of rain smearing the windows, making the crumbling concrete, rusted metal-roofed buildings beyond dance and distort. We pass a horse-drawn cart moving slowly in the opposite direction, a cow improbably grazing on a highway median, but mostly this outer ring of the city is gas stations and garbage, motorcycles and seedy bars where I might take my life in my hands if I were to enter, though I yearn to do so nonetheless. Though my driver, a pleasant man named Luis, is bilingual I am silent, absorbing it all. This, I tell myself, is Nicaragua. I’ve been here one day. I’m already in love with it.
A Hard Day's Hike
Hiking, with its slow pace and general lack of death-defying moments is not really much of an adventurous pursuit. Unless, of course, you’re hiking in the foothills of the Rockies, alone, on a technically tricky trail. Unless the over 5,600-foot altitude has got you panting harder than a hound dog on an August day in Georgia. Unless you are by nature less than graceful and more than uncoordinated. Then hiking becomes a bit more of a challenge.
GPB's Top Ten of 2010, Part II
And now, for the undeniably thrilling conclusion of our year-end wrap up! Filled with state parks and snowshoeing, hot air balloons and horses and the Appalachian Trail and even one lonely mid-air hangover, it’s proof that even the athletically-challenged can, through diligence and with a SWANKY pair of hiking boots, ramp up their game. A little.
GPB's Top Ten of 2010, Part I
Better late than never, the first half of our year-end wrap up arrives! Filled with national parks and desert meaderings, buffalo and horses and the Continental Divide and not even one kidney abduction, it provides irrefutable proof that the universe really does watch over fools. And novice hikers.
Adventure Grinch
What comes of trying to write a blog post when exhausted, stiff, sore, and grumpy – and suffering (no doubt as a result of said conditions) from writer’s block. In all actuality, Craters of the Moon is one of the coolest places I’ve ever been in my life.
