August 2007


August 2007

Featured Stories: The Lone Rangers


Carved in the wild and pristine ridgelines of Virginia and North Carolina are 469 miles of asphalt cared for by real-life Lone Rangers.

Featured Stories: Bike Packing


Ultra Mountain Biking in the Blue Ridge

Featured Stories: Line in the Sand - Saving Cumberland Island


Wealthy Carnegie families—along with their 
 back-pocket politicians—square off against grassroots 
 outdoor groups fighting to save the South’s wildest island


Featured Stories: Canyoneering


Into the Great Wild Ditch

Featured Stories: Nudism and Nature


You’ll never forget the first time you go nude in public. The freedom, the sense of release, the wind in your....Not that I know personally.

Featured Stories: Deep Water Dilemma-soloing banned at Summersville WV


When it comes to access, it seems rock climbers just can’t catch a break—especially when one of the most established crags in the Southeast is closed without notice. That’s what happened in late spring when warning signs started popping up around the cliffs of West Virginia’s Summersville Lake. 


Switchback: Does slackpacking diminish an A.T. thru-hike?

ONLINE RESULTS

YES - 47%

NO - 53%

News of the Wood: Increasing the ItchStudy Says Global Warming Brings More Poison Ivy with Greater Potency

This summer I realized there’s something out there in the world I hate more than cauliflower and rush hour traffic—poison ivy.

Shorts: Collegiate Sprawl

A 900-acre forest popular with trail runners and mountain bikers in Carrboro, N.C. may soon be bulldozed by the University of North Carolina.

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