Hiker Blog

Taking time out for a hike lasting several weeks is becoming an increasingly popular pastime with the 900-kilometre St James Way in Spain experiencing a renaissance with thousands of people reviving a tradition ...

The 10th annual Texas sales tax holiday will be Aug. 15-17 as families prepare to send children back to school.

As local municipalities have saved swaths of woodlands around the East End, taking them off the development table forever, hikers and naturalists have found Shangri-La in the quiet woods, carving narrow foot ...

GreatOutdoors.com staffer Gordy Skoog spends more time outdoors than he does at home, and luckily we can all follow along on some of his adventures via his blog. Check out his gripping story of crossing the Alps on skis, a blog entry he dubs, The Tale of Two Haute Routes.

And follow along as he and his brother Lowell make yet another first ascent in the remote North Cascades of Washington in a post he calls A Magical First Ascent. The two brothers, sadly missing the company of their brother Carl, who was killed in a climbing accident in South America, venture into one of the wildest parts of the range to put up a new route on Natal.

GreatOutdoors.com staffer Mike Rougeux and a partner took a wild trip down to the Northern California Coast for some boulder and crag climbing in an entry he calls Climbing on California’s Lost Coast. The pair, engaged in the mythical search for  what they call Chester Copperpot and One Eyed Willy’s Treasure, find secret camp sites and stellar bouldering within site of gray whales just beyond  in the surf. 

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Every time I see a kayak in this wonderful, outdoor-oriented community, I shudder and consider calling my mom - because I get scared.

Fitting Hiking Boots Perfectly Everytime Boots shopping isn't dificult, the choices are overwhelming but this article simplifies the selection View more &raquo Hiking boots have become an enormous market; visit ...

Kim Phillis helps her granddaughter Lyza Grace Scott, 5, shop for clothes at Target in Citadel Mall to prepare for kindergarten.

Sheriff's Department officials stopped short of identifying a body found Sunday afternoon in the Cerro Alto area outside Atascadero as missing hiker Lance Erik Leage.

Police have reopened the Richmond BART station after a bomb squad destroyed a suspicious backpack that had been left on an Amtrak train by a man dressed like Indiana Jones.

Just slightly, and just when he has to wear a flak jacket over his blue oxford shirt.