Rambling Hemlock

Well, that's the last time I'm gonna leave my rain pants in the car in the winter!  Because this weekend, I discovered another reaso...

Earthstars really are the stars of the fungus world: stunning, dramatic, and difficult to spot.  Keep your eyes peeled for these beauties af...

Protocol for what do you do if you can't go backpacking: 1. Load up your backpack with extra weigh and hit the trail for a dayhike.  I...

Winter wonderland.  Photo by S. Adams. The story this week was how a group of Nine Warrior Women braved 14 miles of slippery trail as we ...

Milkweed along the AT (May 2009) This weekend, I went on an overnight backpacking trip from Hogpen to Unicoi on the Appalachian Trail....

The Joyce Kilmer memorial forest, with its massive tulip poplar trees, seems untouched and unspoiled.  But on my recent trip to this forest...

No other place had taken on such mythic status to me as "the Hangover" and Bob Stratton Bald in the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness Area. ...