by Collin Stuart Chambers
Blame It On Bobby! Our imaginary hiking buddy we cursed to survive 4-days in the Smokies My friend and I just got back from four days and 45 miles in the Great Smoky Mountains, chasing another chunk of our “900 Miler Map.” For the uninitiated, that’s a delightfully...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
NATURE ALWAYS KNOWS WHAT TO DO Whether we are involved or not… My neighbor died this past February. That means something different up here than it might mean elsewhere. He was my closest full-time neighbor, and still over a mile away. In the other direction, my...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
BABY, IT’S HOT OUT THERE! HOW TO STAY COOL (AND ALIVE) WHILE WALKING IN THE SUMMER HEAT It’s July. Much of the country is melting. And somewhere out there, someone is lacing up their boots and heading for a trail in 98-degree heat because “it’ll be fine.” I have...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
These days, I am mostly an evening walker. I do some yoga in the morning after my meditations and then sit… way too much… at my computer, working on one of the many projects I seem to always have going on. In the wintertime, it was a constant struggle to...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
The year was 2000. I spent Y2K with a group of friends I met in a hiking club in Atlanta, camped at Lake Hartwell, waiting to find out whether we were witnessing the dawn of a new era or the collapse of civilization as we knew it. January 1st rolled around. We were...
by Collin Stuart Chambers
I am not quite the adrenaline junkie I used to be. I say this as a woman who has skydived, bungee jumped, earned a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do and a brown belt in karate, mountain biked trails that had no business being called trails, and road her bike regularly alone on...
