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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...
Save Your Summer! Backpacking
Last week when we said, “Yikes, look at the calendar! It’s August 6 a’ready!” it was only August 6. Today, it’s August 12! Yikes! we say again, but with more...
Let's GetBackpacking! this fall
The following is an updated version of a post that originally ran a year ago. Let’s talk for a minute about backpacking. You mean strapping a bulky, steel-frame pack with...
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...
Hikers And Their Trail Names
by Jaala Spencer: Stayin’ Alive, Chili Willy, Lost and Found, Veggie, DK Shhh, Macho Man Randy Savage, Blue, Slumber Cat–hikers and their trail names!It all started on the Appalachian Trail–so...
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,...
ExploreMore in 2015: Susan Levy, from ‘two’ hiker to thru-hiker
The following is the first of several profiles of folks who have discovered their adventurous side in our GetHiking!, GetBackpacking! and GetExploring! programs. When Susan Levy’s thoughts turned to hiking,...