Category: Hiking and Backpacking

• Black Folks Camp Too, Bringing Diversity Outdoors

  

  When I first saw Earl B Hunter, Jr. in the fall of 2021, I was working a shift at DD Bullwinkels Outdoors in Brevard, NC and I thought he was just a customer wearing a statement t-shirt. It read, “Black Folks Camp Too” with a little campfire blaze logo on the front. It kind of…

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  April 30, 2022

  camping, Gear, Hiking and Backpacking, RV, Uncategorized

  Black Folks Camp Too, camping, Earl B Hunter Jr, hiking, Night of Unity, Oboz, outdoors, RV, Unity Blaze

• What’s Your Favorite Small Outdoor Store?

  

  Have a favorite local outdoor store for biking, paddling, surfing, skating, hiking, camping etc? Read on and then share your favorites with me!

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  April 18, 2022

  Food, Gear, Hiking and Backpacking, Retail, Uncategorized

  Biking, hiking, kayaking, Neel gap, outfitters, paddling, Retail

• When Your Daughter Asks You To Go Backpacking…

  

  Missing my adult daughter led me to agree to a new challenge. A four day, three night backpacking trip in May 2019 with a 35 lb pack in the Talladega National Forest in Alabama.

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  April 15, 2022

  Gear, Hiking and Backpacking

  Backpack, Cheaha Wilderness, Chinnabee Silent Trail, Hike Your Own Hike, Mother daughter, Pinhotti Trail, Skyway Loop Trail, Stairway To Heaven, Talladega National Forest, water sources