I used to hike and backpack all the time in the Sierra Nevadas. The Yosemite backcountry was my favorite. Thje Adirondack mountains are really nice too. Now that I'm in the Midwest, I haven't done much at all. Some areas around the Lake Superior or Michigan shores are nice, but most of the landscape around here is quite boring, and no mountains anywhere.
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"It is absolutely necessary that we should submit to God, as our absolute sovereign, and the sovereign over our souls; as one who may have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and harden whom he will." - Jonathan Edwards
I went naturist hiking (hiking without the use of clothing) on Ghost House trail, in Big Ridge State park here in Tennessee last week. There is a cemetary on this trail that dates back to the civil war. It was awesome.
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How do you know where it's safe to go hiking? What if you get a citation for hiking natural?
I'm in the Metro Vancouver, BC area, so we are surrounded by mountains with lots of hiking opportunities. There are a few favourites including Garibaldi Park (best as overnight hikes), Mt Cheam in the Fraser Valley which has beautiful views all about. Even the local mountains have plenty of easy to challenging hikes.
My wife and I haven't been able to get out much due to young kids, but try and get out when we can.
My longest hike was between 50 and 60 miles in 3 1/2 days. Started from Lodgepole in Sequoia over to Roaring river then up the river and over Elizabeth pass, then back home.
Rather funny and later sad. Funny in that we were treated entirely differently by rangers in the front country and the back country. When we got the trail permet we were treated like we were crazy or fools. At the back country ranger station (which we had to go over a real pass to get to) we were treated like we knew what we were doing.
We were technically the first people through Elizabeth pass that year. (3 Marines passed us going the other way on the 'trail' as we neared the pass, but they had gone cross country, not over the pass). Later that day, our last full day, we had a mildly difficult stream crossing. It had been a very heavy snow year. Not long after that crossing the trail became almost groomed. That touches on the sad part. we found out later that 3 people had dies in 2 seperate stream crossing incidents that weekend. Going the way we did we were fully thinking backcountry, be careful. But I can see how someone coming to that same crossing from the other direction could make a potentially fatal mistake.
I hike a lot. We've a couple of short trails here in south Mississippi. I also do section hiking on the AT. So far, I've done Gooch Gap to Dicks Creek Gap in Georgia and just a few weeks ago did the entire section from Fontana Dam through the Smokies to Davenport Gap. It is nice walking with God.
bpitt, I've hiked that section in GA you hiked on the AT. I've hiked 1500 miles of the AT, most most of its VA and north. I've hiked everything from central PA to Monson MA, just have the 100 mi wilderness in Maine, well a short section near the Kennebec River. But since I live in Boston its a major trip now to get to a new section of the trail. But I plan to finish the trail before I get too old to walk.
What a blessing our forfathers have given us.
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