"Hiking" Blogs & Blog Posts

A hiker trying to summit a 13,000-foot ridge in the Colorado Rockies last Wednesday was wearing just a cotton hoodie when a severe snowstorm came out of nowhere. With no food, water, phone reception, or extra clothing, the stranded hiker, whose name...

A group of 13 hikers in Banff National Park became 15 when two grizzly bears decided to follow them for 20 long minutes. "Keep walking, keep walking," the guide, Phoebe Nicholson, said repeatedly in a steady albeit strained voice. "Nice and slow." &#...

Normally, when people go to one of Explore.org's bear cams, they see bears — or at least a bear's habitat. But on Tuesday around 3:15pm, during a bout of windy, rainy weather in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, some viewers tuned in to s...

The woman heard flash flooding coming while in Utah's Mary Jane Canyon and tried to reach higher ground with her dog, but the sand bank was away.

Finally, after nearly 3 months of testing the waters to see if I have whatRead More...

A body found in remote mountain country near Los Angeles is suspected to be the remains of Julian Sands, the veteran actor who went missing hiking there five months ago. Avid hiker Sands, 65, starred in A Room With a View, The Killing Fields, Leaving...

To date Ive completed over a dozen full marathons, half marathons and 5 and 10kmRead More...