These photos of a leopard killing a crocodile are amazing. Apparently it’s the first time this has been witnessed or recorded.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
The Luzzone dam in Switzerland has been made into a climbing wall. Here’s a panoramic image at the base of the dam where you can look up and see the 700ft man-made route.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
The LA Times has a nice profile of Billy Goat, a hiker who has finished off 32,000+ miles of hiking, including the Appalachian Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and where he’s best known, the Pacific Crest Trail. I’m thinking about heading for the PCT next summer, so I found this bit pretty interesting: “Each year about […]
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Sunday, June 8, 2008
New York Times Magazine has a feature on guerrilla gardening. The Guardian has a short video of the gardening guerrillas in action before a little confrontation with the police.
≡The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2007 (review: 3.5/5)
Friday, April 18, 2008
I found The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2007 when I was out hiking a couple few weeks ago. An Appalachian Trail hiker left it behind, recommending to whoever came by. I snagged it.
Any anthology will have some hits and misses. At least, in contrast with my frustrating experience with Flash Fiction Forward, all […]
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Monday, January 21, 2008
The Carter Center is hosting a photography exhibit by Robert Glenn Ketchum. Several dozen of his large-format prints are on display, and Mr. Ketchum himself will be at the Carter Center this Thursday night to talk about his photography of southwest Alaska.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
A long and awesome article about the Self-Transcendence 3100, a 3100-mile race run on a half-mile loop. In Queens, of all places.
Here was a kind of living koan, a race of invisible miles across a phantom plain wider than the continental United States. For fifty days, breathing miasmal exhaust from the Grand Central Parkway, the […]
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
A very cool article on how the National Parks Service is making more realistic maps. [via anil dash]
≡And I’m back
Monday, July 2, 2007
I’m back from hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Go look at my photos from the past 2 months and 1000 miles. I’ll be easing back into regular duty here over the next couple weeks, as I mull over what new directions I’d like to take the website and my life in general. It’s good to […]
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Like I mentioned, this summer I will be thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, which runs from north Georgia to central Maine along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. After a minor post-ponement I’ll be starting Sunday morning, April 22—things will be mighty slow around these parts until I get back.
I had a mostly incredible time back […]
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Francis Tapon is going to attempt to yo-yo the Continental Divide Trail—2800 miles north and 2800 miles back south through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. I think it’s pretty amazing to even consider it, but it seems like the next “logical” step since the AT and PCT have been yo-yo’ed. I’ll be keeping tabs […]
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