If are in the mood for some humor, this hilarious video by Zack at The Good Badger is guaranteed to scratch that itch 🙂
As long as I’ve signed myself up for this bout of insanity, I’m going to take the steps necessary to make sure that I’m a highly tuned hiking/camping machine before I ever step foot onto the Appalachian Trail.
Ryan Dionne (@Explore_It on Twitter) posted a preview of next year’s winter outdoor clothing lines, from companies like Columbia, Outdoor Research, Sierra Designs and others. All of my stuff is two year’s old and Lisa’s TNF jacket is a year old, so it’s kind of neat to see what’s coming, next year.
The holidays are over, the weather has been kind of crummy and cabin fever has reared its ugly head, here in the Scribner household. We had been promising the kids a trip to the snow for some time, so this weekend seemed like the perfect opportunity for a daytrip to Yosemite, which would allow the kids to get their snow on, and us parents to take-in the winter spectacle that is Yosemite. Continue reading
The Travel section of the LA Times has an interesting article on the fledgling national parks of China and talks about how the culture is not yet embracing the outdoor experience.
“For now,” she said, “Chinese tourists don’t travel like you, carrying a backpack into the mountains and going camping. A very small group of Chinese people are doing that, but most of them are just getting on buses and going to overlooks.”
I suppose that in many ways, the popularity of outdoor activities like backpacking and camping is a measure of a society’s wealth, since wealth leads to an increased amount of leisure time.
The National Park Service has published the dates for free entrance into many of the national parks, for 2011:
January 15-17
April 16-24
June 21
September 24
November 11-13