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Guidebook Getaway: Hiking on Golden Coastal Bluffs Near Seattle Can Brighten a Winter Day

In the northern U.S., "winter" and "hiking" don’t often get paired in the same sentence. An exception lies in the Pacific Northwest, where a decent assortment of attractive lowland landscapes remain snow-free, usually, year-round. In this edition of Guidebook Getaways, we feature a beauty of a hike near Seattle. ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 30, 2013 10:00 AM & Tagged Craig Romano, Guidebook Getaways, Hiking, Winter and guidebooks | permalink | Comments



A Good Head for Heights: Recognizing and Preventing Altitude Illness

Lurking behind every mandatory summit photo can be a heap of pain and adversity. The higher you climb, the thinner the air gets, leaving you vulnerable to altitude illness. Our NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute classes about high-altitude medicine are often the students' favorites, as every class contains at least a few aspiring mountaineers. ...

Posted by Hovey WMI on January 29, 2013 12:45 PM & Tagged AMS, HACE, HAPE, WMI of NOLS, Wilderness Medicine Institute, altitude sickness and mountaineering | permalink | Comments



Is Sitting the New Smoking? A Business Exec Recommends a Remedy: Walking Meetings

Author and business exec Nifoler Merchant has joined the list of people who view prolonged sitting as a health risk. (People average 9.3 hours on their backside per day.) Her recent contribution to the Harvard Business Review Blog Network is titled “Sitting is the Smoking of Our Generation.” To counter the trend, she leads walking meetings. Would you join one? ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 28, 2013 11:30 AM & Tagged sitting and walking | permalink | Comments



A Pair of Winter Wonders: Taking a Closer Look at the Origins of Snowflakes and Hoarfrost

Two questions from the winter folder of the Did You Know? file: 1) What is hoarfrost? and 2) How do snowflakes form (and is each one unique)? For answers, give the link a click. ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 24, 2013 10:15 AM & Tagged Snow, Yosemite National Park, hoarfrost and snowflakes | permalink | Comments



Frosty Thoughts for Frigid Times: Frostbite, Ice Climbing on Frozen Silos, Ice Fall in Yosemite

It's seriously cold in the northern half of the U.S. A high Monday of -2°F in Minneapolis marked the first time in 4 years the city had a daily high in negative territory. Near Duluth, Minn., a community named (no fooling) Embarrass hit -36°F. Such news triggered a few thoughts on icy times: ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 23, 2013 9:15 AM & Tagged Ice Climbing, Yosemite falls, frostbite and ice | permalink | Comments