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Hiking brings liberation and it releases our spirits from our four-walled lives to once again connect to the larger - more peaceful - world around us. But in the hurry to get to “the trail” it no longer becomes about the journey but the destination.
The High Ground Book Series
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 Recent blog posts… Trail Work Sheds Light on Chincoteague Lighthouse The Lighthouse Trail, an 0.25-mile path through the pinewoods of the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, recently received new signage explaining its natural features. A complementary forest cutting has opened up a clearer view of the Chincoteague Lighthouse itself.
The Lighthouse Trail leads to an oak-and-sassafras-crowned sand ridge constituting an extinct dune that, in the early days [...] Rare Wild Orchid Thrives In W.Va. Park A very public stand of the reclusive pink ladyslipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) began blooming in early May along a fire lane only feet away from the main road running through West Virginia’s Coopers Rock State Park.
The pink ladyslipper, with the historic nickname moccasin flower given for its resemblance to an indian moccasin, colonizes Coopers Rock [...] Mendocino Logging Chute Eyed for Restoration Officials at California’s Mendocino Headlands State Park have given top priority to an historic reclamation project atop high tableland overlooking the Pacific Ocean. According to Jenny Hecheroth, manager of Mendocino’s Ford House Interpretive Center, the focus is a 19th century apron chute employed by redwood loggers and now reduced to iron remnants. At an elevation [...]
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Millions of people have hiked the paths I have walked, but the spirit of the trails eludes them because they hurry. Look closely at the trees and flowers and stones of these places. My wish for you is that you share in this experience, learning perhaps a new way to approach the outdoors, realizing that the most amazing things can be found just a footstep off the path you’re on.
Author Bill Rozday takes you personally into the untouched and secret places of North America’s high country. As an outdoor writer for more than 20 years, Bill shares with you his first-hand experiences as he walks the “high ground.”
With treks through the mid-Atlantic states, American West and Canadian ranges, you’ll discover a true sense of nature and its many inhabitants.