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Looking for great hikes in the triad? You needn’t look far… Here’s a rundown of our top 25 hikes and trail networks in the region totaling about 140 miles. From...

Sometime in the next week or two, it will happen. Maybe you’ll be walking to your car one morning and a gentle breeze will send an unexpected chill up your...

The good news for Charlotte hikers? It takes less than an hour and a half to get to the Pisgah National Forest, the gateway to epic southern Appalachian hiking. The...

As places to live go, a hiker could do a lot worse than the Triad. According to Allen de Hart’s “Trails of the Triad,” there are more than 140 hikes...

In his poem, “The Peace of Wild Things”, Wendell Berry speaks to the renewal found in a hike or paddle adventure. When despair for the world grows in me and...

written by Matt McCoy and Matt Conley One beautiful morning I spontaneously decided to take a weekend trip with a group of friends One of the wonderful things about living...

Mom and daughter will walk the ancient Camino de Santiago to raise funds for RHA Howell. On October 30, 2013, Greensboro, NC, mother and daughter Deborah and Brenna Berman flew...

Tripp Burwell, a Raleigh native, has recently been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant from the U.S. State Department to study snow leopards in Kazakhstan. He will spend 10 months in...

Mark Synnott loves discovering a remote, unclimbed wall. He loves discovering a little-known culture even better. Synnott is an elite climber sponsored by The North Face who has made a...

When Jennifer Pharr Davis — Jennifer Pharr at the time — graduated from Samford College in 2005, she, like many college grads, didn’t have a plan for the future. So...

Before kids come out to a program at the Prairie Ridge Ecostation, the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ wildlife learning center, Jan Weems asks them to draw a picture of...

We learned first hand about the Museum of Natural Sciences TEEN TV program as we hosted our out-of-town guest Adam Wagner. Adam was the only student selected from outside of...

Jada Hester, Langdon Ogburn and Steven Kostello listen intently as Chris Meyer demonstrates how to speak into a microphone. “You want to talk deeper than the way you talk,” explains...

by Joe Miller Be sure to get your tickets early for the 2013 Radical Reels Film Tour! In Chapel Hill on Thursday, September 5 & Winston-Salem on Friday, September 6....

For the past three weeks, we’ve been extolling the virtues of hiking in North Carolina. We’ve talked about all the great trails, from the coastal Neusiok Trail penetrating the swamp...

Join us September 5 in Chapel Hill and September 6 in Winston-Salem as Great Outdoor Provision Co. hosts the 2013 Radical Reels Film Tour! There are 11 films in the...

As part of our GetHiking! program, which we introduced last week and will launch Sept. 12, we’re spending August extolling the virtues of hiking in North Carolina. Today, a look...

As part of our GetHiking! program, which we introduced last week and will launch Sept. 12, we’re spending August extolling the virtues of hiking in North Carolina. Today, a look...