Hikes and Hiking
Hiddens Gems to Visit In These 5 National Parks
One less-utilized access point is the east entrance, 25 miles west of Cameron, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. Both entrances, divided by 23 scenic miles along the canyon’s rim, lead to the same spot at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center. “Check the wait times online,” Mr. Mohn said. “But the biggest bottleneck is going to […]
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Baratunde Thurston Wants You to Be Part of Nature. Right Now.
There was also a shock for me on Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, with James “Ooker” Eskridge, the mayor of the community. On paper, me and this guy don’t have that much to say to each other. He was in the Trump-iest voting district in America by some measures, and he’s very, very, very […]
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Hiking Down to Phantom Ranch, the Grand Canyon’s ‘Destination Hotel’
When a friend first mentioned the Grand Canyon’s Phantom Ranch, I couldn’t believe my ears. It’s America’s most elusive hotel reservation, she said, the only lodging within the canyon itself, all 277 miles of it. A cluster of century-old stone cabins tucked along a stream, reachable only by mule ride or by trudging down nearly […]
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At Shadow Lake Lodge in Canada, Getting There is the Only Hard Part
We headed out for our day of hiking feeling optimistic about the restocked larder. Our route led us up into a towering alpine valley called the Amphitheater, where we peeked into an ice cave, splashed in a tarn and lunched on a glacier, all to a soundtrack of tinkling waterfalls plunging down from the sheer […]
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Recreating a Family’s Lost Holocaust History, Step by Step
That afternoon, we drove to what remains of Barcares, now an abandoned, overgrown field full of unclaimed internment camp artifacts. I walked along the straight rows of what looked like the cement foundations of barracks and picked up a bullet casing and one of many rusted twists of barbed wire. Across the road was a […]
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How Disability Advocates Are Pushing to Make Hiking More Accessible
“I wanted that self-reliance back, I wanted the safety nets removed,” he explained. While Mr. Thomas believes the backcountry isn’t suitable for everyone, he thinks the outdoors should be. In 2013, he started the Team FarSight Foundation to help empower other visually impaired individuals to hike, climb and get outdoors. Even short hikes can be […]
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Can a New Line of Work Help Save These Wild Welsh Ponies?
As a keen equestrian, I felt a little odd to be pulling on hiking shoes, rather than riding boots, as I prepared for a day out with horses. But this wasn’t going to be an ordinary hike. My new friend Jacko snorted and threw his head to the side to watch as I carefully packed […]
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