“The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.”
Lord Robert Baden-Powell
Why Water is so Important Augest 2024 TVOE Want to know why water is so vital to your trail health? About 60 to 70 percent of your body is water.
T-26 Newsletter July, 2024 (The Voice of Experience) Bears: Smart, Motivated, Relentless Black bears, particularly those in the Sierra Nevada, have become “habituated” to human food. That means once
T-26 Newsletter June, 2024 Hiking the Trail General advice and sound tips for the novice in us all. Lace up and load up at home, before hitting the trail, put
Blisters The Cure: Catch the hot spot before it’s too late. Heavy all-leather waffle stompers may have gone the way of the dodo bird, but blisters, alas, have not. Friction,
T-26 Newsletter May, 2024 Ease the Itch People who fill their packs with over-the-counter meds for poison oak almost universally report the same conclusion: “They Don’t Work” including Benadryl. You’re
T-26 Newsletter April, 24 Body Tune-Ups Orthopedic surgeons know all about, “runner’s knee”and, “biker’s wrist,” but hey have few, if any labels for backpacking-specific maladies. That’s because ours is a
