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This Week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This week in GetHiking!, GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This week in GetHiking! GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This week in GetHiking! GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This Week in GetHiking! GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This week in GetHiking!, GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...

This week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...
Let’s Take a Walk in the Woods, IV: Becoming a Hiker
So you you’ve been following our Let’s Take a Walk in the Woods series in this space for the past month about becoming a hiker. You started with the basics,...

This week in GetHiking!, GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...
Let’s Take a Walk in the Woods, III: Basic Gear
So you read our post two weeks ago about launching your hiking career, then last weekend, based on our beginner hike recommendations the following week, took not one, but two...

A Walk in the Woods, part II: Great trails for beginning hikers
So you read our post last week about launching your hiking career — if you didn’t, hit pause and go here, then come back — and were intrigued. You’ve let...
This fall, let’s take a walk in the woods
There’s a scene in “A Walk in the Woods,” the screen version of Bill Bryson’s memorable 1998 account of his common-sense-plagued hike on the Appalachian Trail, in which Bryson (played...

This week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetHiking! enewsletters for Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle, and our GetExploring! Greenville enewsletter. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes...
This week in GetHiking! and GetExploring!
The following items are from our GetHiking! enewsletters for Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle, and our GetExploring! Greenville enewsletter. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes...
This week in GetExploring!, GetHiking!
Our next adventures: Paddle Merchants Millpond, early morning hikes Merchants Millpond One of our favorite paddles in the state and one that should be on every paddler’s resume: Merchants Millpond....

At random, on an AT thru-hike
Susan Levy, a charter member of GetHiking! Triangle and a graduate of last fall’s GetBackpacking! program, is thru-hiking the Applalachian Trail. She set off on March 30 from Springer Mountain,...

Thru-hiking the AT: 730 miles down, 1,450 to go
Susan Levy, a charter member of GetHiking! Triangle and a graduate of last fall’s GetBackpacking! program, is thru-hiking the Applalachian Trail. She set off on March 30 from Springer Mountain,...