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Hiking News - May 2007
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007
One of Catra Corbett’s favorite tattoos is a caricature of herself saying, “Pain Is Pleasure.” With her many body piercings, colorful tattoos and colorfully braided hair, she does not at all look like your typical hiker. But her fashion statements say a lot about what’s raging inside her. <
br>Corbett was once an amphetamine addict and a chronic alcoholic. She eventually cleaned her act up and got a job at Whole Foods as a nutrition specialist. Clean and sober for 12 years, she now owns a home and a car, and has recently taken a leave of absence to pursue a dream of hers: she dreams of breaking the 78-day speed hiking record for the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail.
“I like to challenge myself,” said the now divorced Corbett. “You only live once, and this is my way of seeing the beauty in California. I set goals when I stopped doing drugs and drinking, and hiking the PCT was one of them.”
People like Corbett will always have their share of critics. Some say hikers such as Corbett and Scott Williamson, who did the PCT last year for the second time, are lost souls whose answer to life's challenges is to try to escape from reality by going through pain and suffering on endless trails like the PCT.
“The way I look at it is I'm not hurting myself or others around me. I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. That was hurting myself. This is a much better addiction,” Corbett said once of her hiking.
She set out last Thursday with a Julien Chauchepart, a 26-year old outdoor retailer sales rep she met on the Internet and who is now her hiking buddy.
For more information, visit www.signonsandiego.com
Monday, 28 May 2007
The Alleghenies website has launched a new online and print tool that showcases the different hiking options in the region. Website visitors can choose hiking trails according to type, length, or degree of difficulty. Consequently, they can get trail descriptions, trail maps, elev ation charts, as well as trailhead locations with GPS coordinates. Aside from hiking information, information on local lodging, attractions, and other opportunities for outdoor recreation can be found in the website.
Website visitors can choose among the 60 hikes in the Alleghenies, which is located in South central Pennsylvania. Hiking trails in the Alleghenies region range from 1/2 mile to more than 30 miles, providing a lot of options for all kind of hikers.
For more information, visit www.sev.prnewswire.com or check out the Alleghenies website at www.thealleghenies.com.
Thursday, 24 May 2007
Organizers of the sixth annual, nine-day Hiking Week slated on Saturday, May 26, until Friday, June 3, are encouraging Pennsylvanians to visit the outdoors and take hiking as an exercise. One hundred seven organized hikes have been set for all ages and abilities by the Departmen t of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) together with the co-sponsoring Keystone Trails Association, a 1,100-member organization of hiking and outdoors organizations.
"Hiking week offers a chance to enjoy both healthy exercise and the serenity of our very special places outdoors," Michael DiBerardinis, DCNR Secretary said. Hiking events will take place across the state, from forests and parks to cities and towns.
For more information, visit www.prnewswire.com.
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Tom Gmitter set out on a solo hiking last Sunday to complete a double crossing of the Grand Canyon in 24 hours to mark his 60th birthday. However, his left knee gave out after 13 hours of hiking, making him fall short of his grand hiking attempt."I'm very, very disappointed that I didn't do a rim-to-rim-to-rim, but I feel like I did my very best," Gmitter said. Gmitter has hiked about 22 miles of the 44.5-mile hiking journey. Though he did not achieve his plan, he was happy to say that he completed a rim-to-rim trek faster compared to his three previous trips.
He set out on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at 2 a.m. carrying an 18-pound backpack. At 3 p.m. later that day, he arrived at the North Rim. However, he suffered multiple pains in his left knee on his attempt to cross back the Grand Canyon, which led him to abandon his trek.
For more information, read the full news story at www.tennessean.com.
Thursday, 17 May 2007
Officials of Montgomery County are hurrying to finish its trail network plan before June ends to avoid having to comply with a Virginia state regulation. Effective in July, all localities will have to submit traffic impact analysis to the Virginia Department of Transportation (V DOT). "Under VDOT's regulations, we would have to jump through some hoops and spend a significant amount of money," Planning Director Joe Powers said. "So we're trying to get them all wrapped up by June 30."
Powers added that they would just hire a traffic engineer to make a traffic study if they fail to finish the trail plan. The trail plan, however, has minimal impact on motorists, he said. The trail network would connect seven villages namely Riner, Elliston/Lafayette, Prices Fork, Belview, Plum Creek, and Shawsville. The trail network would be connected to larger communities such as Blacksburg, Radford, and Christianburg, as well.
For more information, read the full news story at www.roanoke.com.
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