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5 Hikes to Catch a First Glimpse of Fall
Summit Trail, Elk Knob State Park (photo courtesy NC State Parks) You’re fed up with the summer heat. With the tease (last week) of cooler, fall-like air only to be...
5 Must-Do Summer Mountain Hikes in the Southern Appalachians
Shining Rock Wilderness, Pisgah National Forest Summer is ideal for hiking the Southern Appalachians. Sunny skies, temperatures 15 to 20 degrees cooler than in the flatlands, bracing mountain streams, pools...
New, for 2016: GetHiking! The Southeast's Classic Hikes
In 2015, we launched our GetHiking! Classic Hikes program with GetHiking! North Carolina’s Classic Hikes. Over the course of the year we hiked a dozen of North Carolina’s most notable...
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...
Save Your Summer! Part I: Take a Hike
Yikes, look at the calendar! It’s August 6 a’ready! Where did the summer go? Easy there, adventurous friends. We may be down to the last month before Labor Day and...
Climbing Mount Rainier — with a purpose
When John and Anne Wade met several years ago, they were both extremely active, but they liked to do different things. John was into boxing, karate, mixed martial arts, Anne...
Explore More in 2015: Hike North Carolina’s classic trails
You picture yourself as the adventurous type. What you don’t picture is paddling over waterfalls, mountain biking off 15-foot drops, or running for 24 hours straight. Or buying a wingsuit....