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• My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 425
  Welcome once again to our year-end wrapup and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group , from whom I have stolen all these award categories. We will begin this week with Part 1 of these annual awards, and then next Friday on New Years Day, we will present Part 2 , ...
  4 days ago

• Waiting for Wannetta…

  
  Great Smoky Mountains National Park Podcasts & Blog — Authority: 111
    December 3 is a special day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s the day that Wannetta Johnson brings a poinsettia to Park Headquarters. Click here or on the photo to find out why she has made this special trip every year for the past 35 years. Closed captioning is available for this video by ...
  1 week ago

• Appalachian Trail Visitation Study Has Breakthrough Implications for Linear Park Visitor Tallies

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 589
  Survey researchers are testing and tweaking new procedures for obtaining Appalachian Trail visitation estimates. The new methodology should yield much more defensible visitation tallies for trails and linear parks with numerous backcountry access points. read more
  1 week ago

• How should I go about planning a hike through the Appalachian Trail?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 170
  I want to hike all the way through North Carolina on the Appalachian trail in late spring of 2011. I really have no knowledge about how to even begin planning such an adventure. How long would it take? Do I need any permits? What should I pack? A website would be awesome or maybe some book suggestions? I googled this ...
  1 week ago

• Power naps

  
  As The Crow Flies — Authority: 123
  When I start dragging on the trail, I unfurl my Z-Rest and take a short power nap—maybe 20 minutes or so. Most of the time it’s just me in my sphere on the trail.   So I lie down in the middle of trail confident that no one will be coming along. I need to be careful  of doing that right out of town because ...
  1 week ago

• ATC Wins $25,000 in Chase Community Giveaway

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 436
  The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) announced on Friday that they were among 100 organizations to win a $25,000 grant from the Chase Community Giving campaign. You may recall from a posting a few weeks ago that the JP Morgan Chase Foundation was sponsoring a Facebook-based charity campaign in which voters ...
  1 week ago

• Appalachian Trail Visitation Study Underway

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 436
  The National Park Service is currently conducting a project to develop an effective system for tallying the number of hikers on the Appalachian Trail. This is from the press release: The project started in 2007 with the Appalachian Trail (AT) entering into an interagency agreement with the Forest Service’s ...
  1 week ago

• Pictures of the past on the Appalachian Trail

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 436
  The Charleston Daily Mail has an article on their website about a new book, Along Virginias Appalachian Trail. The book was written by Leonard Adkins, an accomplished author and hiker who has hiked the entire length of the AT on five separate occasions. The book was produced in cooperation with the Appalachian Trail ...
  1 week ago

• Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa

  
  Cuppacafe — Authority: 442
  Yeah, this has been done before (I remember a non-slanderous smear speech that I read in Mad Magazine a century or so back), and, well, this vid takes a sideways poke at Tiger and any other public figure that has had to stand in front of a bank of Mics to say “Oops, I f#cked up.” Enjoy, I know that I did. ...
  1 week ago

• The James River Footbridge

  
  Visual Thoughts Photography — Authority: 138
  This is the James River Footbridge that carries the Appalachian Trail across the river in Snowden in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. © 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved. NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper ...
  1 week ago

• Appalachian Trail Parking Guide

  
  sectionhiker.com — Authority: 427
  Although most of the people who hike the Appalachian Trail are section hikers, you wont find many trail guides designed for them available from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, which is kind of a shame if you think about it too much. But there is an unofficial Appalachian Trail Parking Guide that you should know ...
  1 week ago

• A Passage Through Time—in sepia

  
  Visual Thoughts Photography — Authority: 138
  A CSX railroad trestle crossing the James River in Snowden on a morning of a seemingly primordial atmosphere…two worlds as it were. © 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved. NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper ...
  2 weeks ago

• Southern Appalachian hiker gift ideas

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 436
  Need some gift ideas for that special hiker in your life? Below are a few suggestions any hiker or lover of the Southern Appalachians would appreciate: Just Passin Thru A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters is the brand new release from Winton Porter. The book ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dawn of Mist

  
  Visual Thoughts Photography — Authority: 138
  A misty early morning on the Appalachian Trail at Thunder Ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. © 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved. NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper credit given to me, D L Ennis. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jenny Sanford Spreads the Holiday Cheer With Some Nice, Old Fashioned Divorce Papers

  
  Democralypse Now — Authority: 127
  Did Babs Walters’ 10 most fascinating people special push Jenny Sanford over the edge by reminding her of that dumb, still-husband of hers Mark Sanford, whose compass famously navigated him from the innocent trails of the Appalachians to the smooth, welcoming arms of his Latina lover 3,000 miles away in Buenos ...
  2 weeks ago

• First snow: Eight winter activities for budget friendly fun

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , Hiking , History , Learning , Skiing , Festivals and Events , Food and Drink , Stories , China , United Kingdom , United States , Hotels and Accommodations , Travel Deals With the first snow comes thoughts of winters smorgasbord of budget friendly travel options. Fall ...
  2 weeks ago

• Planning a Thru-Hike

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 436
  Trailspace.com has a pretty good four-part series on their website about planning for a thru-hike. Written by Barbara Egbert, a thru-hike veteran herself, The Lure of a Long Trail: Planning a Thru-Hike offers basic information for would-be long distance thru-hikers to help them tackle the Appalachian Trail, Pacific ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grouse on Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire

  
  Time Outdoors — Authority: 122
  This grouse was sitting in the middle of the Appalachian Trail just before I reached Franconia Ridge.   I had seen several grouse while hiking on the trail, but within the last mile I saw... Inspirational Photo Blog with Daily Quotes and Clean Humor. I hope you enjoy.
  3 weeks ago

• Help the ATC Win a Grant from Chase Bank

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 436
  Chase Community Giving is giving away $25,000 to 100 charities. With your help, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) will have a chance to win one of these grants from Chase Community Giving and possibly one million dollars if they make it to the second round. Chase Community Giving is a program run by Chase ...
  3 weeks ago

• Snowy Appalachian Trail

  
  Old Dominion Wildlife — Authority: 125
  We went for a short hike on December 6th, the day after the snowstorm. These photos were taken south of Manassas Gap near Linden, Virginia.See Also: Hiking in Linden
  3 weeks ago

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