Hiking News

The absolute best scenic hike is The Mitchell Lake Trail in the Brainard Lake Recreation Area near Nederland, Colorado.

Vegan shoes are getting much easier to find as consumers demand more high-tech materials in their footwear.

Detail from Edward Weston's "Charis, Lake Ediza, 1937" My very first experiment in the deconstruction and interpretation of sexual imagery took place when I found my way to a book called "California and the West." Among the scenic photographs by Edward Weston was the image of a beautiful young woman who sits against a rock and stares into the ...

AN ADVENTUROUS bank worker is swapping his briefcase for a backpack, to trek along the Great Wall of China.

Okay hikers, Black Friday is almost here! The retailers want you in their stores and the online stores want you to break out those credit cards, so they're offering some great deals on hiking and camping gear.

A poisonous cane toad evaded biosecurity checks at Queenstown Airport last week after arriving in the resort from Australia in a passenger's luggage.

Regardless if you snowboard, hike, bike, climb, backpack or just car camp for one week out of the year, you will want to find the stores that are offering the best Black Friday gear deals .

Jordan Nicurity had been dragging his body across sharp sandstone on an empty belly for three days, shock and adrenaline the only salve for his crushed pelvis, when a raw moment of do or die arrived.

Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.

The defendant sat with his head on the defense table and his crayons and coloring book in front of him.

North Huntingdon police released surveillance photos Thursday of an armed man they said robbed a PNC bank on Thursday.

Chad Stroup was scouting out locations for his annual tradition of deer hunting with his father that would have been the Monday after Thanksgiving when he went missing Tuesday and was found dead the next day, his mother said.

The legend of Medicine Hole in North Dakota's Killdeer Mountains is large. Medicine Hole is said by American Indian oral tradition to have been the escape route of the peace seeking Sioux Indians that General Sully's expedition attacked July 28, 1864.

A jury has decided on the death penalty for a man who beat his ex-girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death.

The body of 26-year-old Chad Stroup, of Columbia, was found only 1,000 feet from his truck Wednesday afternoon, which was located one and a half miles down Birch Run Road in Michaux State Forest.

By Jennifer Broadwater jbroadwater@patuxent.com Posted 11/18/09 Beaverbrook resident Charles Daniels, 70, shown here near his home, recently completed the triple crown of North American trails by hiking the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails.

Corvallis Police say this morning at about 1:45 a.m., officers were called out to investigate an armed robbery which occurred at DeDe's located at 1786 NW 9th Street.

We have updated our handheld hiking GPS ratings with the addition of the Delorme Earthmate PN-30 and Garmin Dakota 10 devices.

On Thursday morning a group of hikers from the Cowichan Outdoor Club and Lake Cowichan were in the mist high up on Bald Mountain, where they were exploring the upgraded hiking trails.

IF youa re looking for the ultimate physical challenge, then what better way to put your stamina to the test than by conquering the worlda s highest mountain! Breast Cancer Campaign is calling on all gutsy fundraisers with a sense of adventure in the Yeovil area to pull on their hiking boots and sign up to its Everest Base Camp trek to help the ...