Hiking News Headlines

• Before you hike one of Colorado’s Fourteeners, they’re are a few things you should know. Depending on the time of year and your skill level, tackling one of the 55 mountains at or above 14,000 feet above sea level ….

• Screening footage from his uncompleted documentary, The Vanishing Hemlock: A Race Against Time, David Huff sounds an alarm to save southern Hemlock forests from the woolly adelgid ….

• This years’ National Public Lands Day is Saturday, September 27th, 2008. The annual program of the National Enviromental Education Foundation is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands ….

• For hiking all of Pennsylvania’s 18 State Forest Hiking Trails, totaling 798 miles, William S. Geiger of Lehigh County, and John Potter of Lycoming County, PA are the 2008 recipients of the State Forest Trails Award ….

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Hiking News Headlines

• Two hikers died this past Wednesday (9/10/2008) as a flash flood swept away a family group and their guides. Hiking in a slot canyon in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, they had no warning ….

• Tropical Storm Hanna damaged Nova Scotia hiking trails in the Cape Chignecto Provincial Park. Two wooden bridges, a large one at Refugee Cove and a smaller one at Seal Cove, will have to ….

• Ground was broken for a new 14 mile hiking and mountain biking trail at Lake Howard, Alabama. Entering the Talladega National Forest, and growing a half-mile per day, the trail ….

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