Entries filed under 'Thanksgiving'

A Thanksgiving List, Hiker's Edition

Think about a world with no national parks, no guidebooks, no trail crews, no rangers, no helpful volunteers, no trail angels, no viewpoint or wildflowers. Ugh; I'd rather not. Instead, on this Thanksgiving Day, here's a list of things that lead me, a hiker, to give thanks. ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on November 21, 2012 3:30 PM & Tagged Hiking, Thanksgiving, national parks and trails | permalink | Comments



Thankful for a Tradition of Family "Outdoorsiness"

On my desk sits a large, framed, black-and-white photo that always inspires me. It's clearly from a bygone era. In fact, I know exactly who the sprawling group under the sequoias is and when it was taken, thanks to the carefully hand-printed inscription in the corner: Sierra Club, Yosemite, July 10, 1921. Right smack in the middle are 2 smiling faces: my maternal grandmother and grandfather, in their courting days. I see in their smiles, especially in my grandmother's, a clear enjoyment of the ...

Posted by Ann B on November 28, 2011 3:12 PM & Tagged Guatemala, John Muir, Sierra Club, Thanksgiving, Tikal, camping, grandmother and national parks | permalink | Comments



Spending Thanksgiving in the Backcountry? What's on Your Menu?

One of my better Thanksgivings was spent years ago on the slopes of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park, a gorgeous, 800,000-acre confluence of desert, mountain and riparian environments in a far-flung corner of southwest Texas. It was warm, sunny and dry my entire 2-week stay in the park in late November. My only misstep the whole trip: On Thanksgiving night, surrounded by sotol stalks and serenaded by (I'm guessing) a handful of coyotes, dinner was a pot of spaghetti. Nothing wrong ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on November 23, 2011 5:29 PM & Tagged Thanksgiving, Turkey, dried fruit, food and freeze-dried meals | permalink | Comments