Hiking News

QUIRKY pop star Ke$ha claims to drink her own urine in a revolting clip from her MTV reality show My Crazy Beautiful Life.

I was heading to lunch a couple of weeks ago and couldn't decide what I wanted, so I did some driving while I pondered cheeseburgers, chicken wraps and, who knows, maybe a salad.

It's not the wilderness like you have on popular rivers where rafters are bunched up in long lines and hikers are continually coming around the bends on trails.

This event is only for the brave at heart...or anyone that likes to hike, likes the winter or just wants a different adventure...it is the annual Winter Hike held at Hocking Hills State Park in Logan, Ohio.

The 35th Annual Mountainfilm Festival is the first of two awe-inspiring fests that take place in Telluride, Colorado Memorial Day weekend.

Weather, terrain, culture, beach sandal-to-hiking boot ratio -- there are plenty of things to distinguish the north state from Southern California.

It's warm but not too hot. All the restaurants and shops are open, but tourists haven't crowded the town yet, and you can find a lot of tranquility on the trails.

Nicolas Cendoya, 19, pictured on left, went missing while hiking with a friend last month.

Superintendent Darlene Koontz announced Monday that the main park road through Lassen Volcanic National Park is scheduled to open at noon on Friday, May 24 in time for the Memorial Day weekend.

While appearing monolithic from a patio down in Colorado Springs, Colo., it's an amazingly complex mountain, with long sloping valleys, pine-studded hills, forbidding cliffs, hidden hollows and miles of wind-swept tundra and rocky spires, with views from the "purple mountain majesties" to the "amber waves of grain." As a symbol and rallying cry of ... (more)

Sheriff's Office officials say many searches could be avoided if hikers use some common sense and a little preparation.

What appear to be lush grassy fields at a distance turn out to be craggy, broken expanses of volcanic rock, that are truly tough going without proper hiking boots.

For many San Diegans the question, "What is there to do this weekend?" is answered by one word, hiking! San Diego must be one of the greatest spots on the globe for good hiking.

Road crews are working to repair the road near Sulphur Works hydrothermal area. Road will be closed at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center during the week, and open to Sulphur Works on the weekends.

Water from dozens of springs merges to form rivulets flowing down the hillsides in sand-bottom channels.

Maureen McCarthy is a PhD Candidate in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Southern California.

A bank in Oro Valley bank was robbed Friday afternoon.At about 5 p.m., a man wearing a dark bandanna over his face, an olive green floppy hat, dark sunglasses, a long-sleeve green shirt, blue jeans and brown hiking boots entered the Bank of America in the 12000 block of North Rancho Vistoso Boulevard at East Tangerine Road.He demanded money from ... (more)

The suspect was described as a Hispanic or white male, unknown age, approximately 6-feet tall, with a medium build, she said.

The Estes Valley Library's Youth Department and The Rocky Mountain Nature Association will present Rocky Mountain Trailblazers: Kids Hiking Series "Gem Lake" on Saturday, May 25 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for children ages 7-15. Participants will meet at the Gem Lake - Lumpy Ridge Trailhead: In Estes Park, take the Hwy.

Newly hired PUD Communications Director Suzanne Hartman said moving from Washington's west coast to the home of her favorite hiking locations was an opportunity she pounced on the moment she heard an opening existed.