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Category: North Carolina

Gifts
Georgia / North Carolina / South Carolina / Tennessee / USA

Gifts

April 26, 2023November 9, 2024

I’m just back from Georgia, Western North Carolina and Tennessee, where I was paddling and scouting a bit for some future adventures. I floated a few rivers and visited some …

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Detours
North Carolina / USA

Detours

December 30, 2022June 8, 2023

We are are hiking our way through North Carolina for our holidays, freelancing some adventure after veering away from a few COVID outbreaks. The past week has seen five family …

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An Upright Pursuit
North Carolina / Paddling / USA

An Upright Pursuit

August 12, 2021August 5, 2022

I always try to balance risks so that they are risks worth taking–by acquiring skills, experience, and maybe gear, too. After all, things do occasionally go wrong in the outdoors, …

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Going Nowhere
North Carolina / Tennessee / USA

Going Nowhere

August 9, 2021November 17, 2023

My friends up north are very familiar with the “Bridge to Nowhere,” a controversial (and now dead) project in Southeast Alaska. Closer to home, Western North Carolina has its very …

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Making Connections
Food and Drink / Maine / North Carolina / USA / Virginia

Making Connections

February 19, 2021March 15, 2021

While hockey and seafood are both held on ice, they aren’t really connected…unless you happen to be watching a cooking show called Plates and Skates. This new Youtube series pairs …

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More Than Meets The Eye
Biking / North Carolina / USA

More Than Meets The Eye

January 27, 2021February 10, 2024

One of the more elusive things to see in the wild is a wolf. I saw my first one in Yellowstone some years ago, and have been fortunate enough to …

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A Trip to the Office
Cabins / North Carolina / USA / Virginia / West Virginia

A Trip to the Office

November 2, 2020March 8, 2021

For obvious reasons, this year has been more about pressing pause than pressing play. And the list of things we’ve paused feels long, including air travel, crowded spaces, shared river …

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Vacationing at a Distance
Biking / North Carolina / USA / Virginia

Vacationing at a Distance

July 16, 2020September 8, 2021

This summer we had originally planned a trip far afield…but then COVID-19 changed the world and changed our plans. So we decided to stay closer in order to have more …

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Stepping In Old Footprints
North Carolina / Packrafting / Paddling / USA

Stepping In Old Footprints

March 30, 2018February 9, 2022

My last post was about the Adirondacks, a place that I’ve visited over and over through the last several decades. There are only a few destinations like that for me, …

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