If you’ve been on our GetHiking! Meetup pages for the Triangle or Triad lately, you may have noticed an event this weekend, “Celebrate the Haw River with 3 Hikes and a Paddling Film Festival” event. Frankly, it’s hard to imagine a better way to celebrate the last weekend in March than with hikes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. along the jungly Haw River, followed by an International Paddling Film Festival. (Details here.)
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Embrace your ‘Spots of Time’
I typically have a deaf ear when it comes to poetry. In fact, just about anything classified as literature.
But recently, I ran across a passage from English poet William Wordsworth that resonated:
There are in our existence spots of time,
That with distinct preeminence retain
Trail Etiquette: Hike Nice
We head into the wayback machine again to revisit the timely topic of trail etiquette. The following first appeared here on March 19, 2010, and has appeared occasionally since. It reappears today, with minor revisions, as we head into the busy spring hiking season.
Tips for an evening saunter into night
Editor’s note: We run this piece every year around this time. The extra hour of afternoon daylight that Daylight Saving Time grants us means we can hit the trail after work. But that comes with a caveat — and some advice, which follows.
For much of the winter, the sun sets long before we’ve had a chance to enjoy it after getting off work. Now, it stays out later and later, and so do we. Sometimes later than we anticipated.
Spring is Nigh; Here’s How to Avoid Crowded Trails
Note: We like to run this column at the beginning of spring to make your spring hiking experience more enjoyable.
It’s always been a goal to hike the trails less traveled. It’s a goal we’ve embraced with extra gusto over the past two years.
Quick recap: hiking was pretty popular prior to March 2020, it became the go-to source of not only outdoor recreation, but recreation of any kind after March 2020, it being deemed the only safe form of recreation in the face of a global pandemic. While hiking no longer bears that mantel, scads of folks who discovered the joy of hiking over the past two years aren’t going away. And the beginning of spring is when you really begin to notice the increased number of hikers on the the trail.