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What I have done is taken the story you provided, and given folks the chance to see the same events in a different light. They can judge for themselves which version resonates more strongly.

Oh, so they didn't and it was you who turned the story around?

Let's tell this story differently: A bunch of untrained and unprepared hikers went out where they had no business going. They were warned to turn around and ignored the advice. When they got into trouble, they had no training and no first aid kit on them. They went to Greenleaf hut, where a...

Outside Podcast did a story (early Fall? of) last year on the depression many thru-hikes seem to experience when they come off the trail. As you noted, the reason seems to be that many thru-hikers start their journeys because there is something in their lives with which they are not happy and...

Well, gosh, if Fred Becky was not a dirt bag, I'm not sure who is! I would say that if someone is living on cheap and has no permanent address, they probably qualify as a dirt bag.

My understanding is that he got divorced, quit his job, sold everything, and hit the road. I suspect that once he ends up in Newfoundland, he will start thinking about laying down some roots again--much as peakbagger noted. ...That being said, he seemed pretty happy being rootless and living...

I met a genuine dirt bag on Monday! Sunday was a nice ten miles on the Midstate Trail with my new hiking buddy Samia and her boyfriend Chris P. We ended up at a true gem a small federal park called Barre Falls. The Army Cops of Engineers designed a pretty cool frisbee golf course around the...

So I should stop reading Views? :)

Yep, this was the ad on my masthead when I was reading your post!

I saw an announcement yesterday that something weather related (flooding, landslide?) and the Kanc is closed past Hancocks campground. But since no one has posted about it here yet, I might be wrong about that. Brian

I think the "folks down south" are well aware of where the energy comes from, thank you very much! Very good series on Quebec Hydro and the indigenous people with the dams. http://outsideinradio.org/powerline The dams are built, and they are generating renewable energy. Whatever was done, was...

Thank you for doing that! I'm looking forward to the end of plastic bags entirely, either in produce departments or for home use. I think some pretty exciting research is being done with kelp right now. I've also become a fan of Stashers, which protect my lunches on hikes better than...

"The Massachusetts contract with Hydro-Quebec is crucial to the state’s efforts to tackle climate change. Offshore wind is the homegrown industry grabbing all of the attention, but hydroelectricity from Quebec is the steady, reliable base on which Massachusetts can build a green electricity...

No, the goal is to bring renewable hydro energy to Massachusetts and the central New England ISO grid so we can lower our carbon footprint. Hydro Quebec's dams produce an astonishing 165 TWh annually. (Hydro-Québec Production) You ask why "they" (whoever that is) just build more small solar...

I listen to an outdoor podcast, and every episode begins with Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, talking about when he decided to go into business, he would do it on his terms. After sixteen years of listening, that sank in, and when I started my criminal defense law firm, I pledged to give...

The goal is to bring in hydro power so they can shut power plants down.

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the folks who brought us Free Solo and Meru have a new movie out in theaters, The Wild Life (93 min). The film is about Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (CEO of Patagonia) and Douglas Tompkins (founder of Esprit clothing), who married late in life and...

As people have catalogued, backpacks have gotten lighter, pots have gotten lighter, flashlights have gotten lighter, synthetics have replaced cotton and wool, freeze-dried meals have dramatically gotten less salty and far better tasting, and cellphones have replaced cameras for most of us--with...

I began hiking around 1999/2000, and I can attest that the crowds were absolutely nothing like they are today. Yes, on nice weekends, Guyot shelter would fill, but now it fills by the early afternoon. One could park below Cannon and see a dozen cars at most, now that lot fills to capacity and...

"Hors Piste" My gift to you! Six minutes of an animated mountain rescue where things do quite go as planned. https://vimeo.com/horspistemovie?embedded=true&source=owner_portrait&owner=104877697