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I am saddened to pass on this news as I, like many others, have spent a few episodes
stupefied as the Man vs. Wild star Bear Grylls portrays crazy survival stunts such as jumping into an ice covered lake or drinking water straight from an elephant dropping all in the name of survival. But it looks […]

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wanted to share some links and stories I discovered while catching up on the frequently updated and always well written Two-Heel Drive. Please take a moment of your time to check out Tom Mangan’s blog. I am watching it intently as he is experimenting with changing the focus from general hiking to much […]

The AP has chimed in shedding a great deal of light on this case of a husband and wife day hiking in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Miner’s Castle and the husband “allegedly” murdering her by pushing her over the edge.
Cliff Case Document tells of Affair
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Associated Press
MISSAUKEE COUNTY — A McBain […]

I missed posting the middle part of this story but to catch you up of you didn’t read about it. The hiker who died from falling being pushed off the cliffs around Castle Rock husband has been charged with murder and manslaughter (If murder doesn’t stick with the jury they will try to get him […]

The yahoo ads are gone. They were kinda nice at first, they offer a lot higher pay per click then yahoo ads do but that leveled quickly. They just do not have the advertising base that Google does so their ads are usually totally irreverent to the webpage content. To seal the deal on my […]

“I love the smell of flack jackets and binos in the morning… smells like birding.” Sergeant First Class Jon Trouern not only runs a cool blog entitled Birding Babylon and not only has been featured on NRP several times but has now released a book on his nature and birding adventures while stationed in Iraq. […]

As you may have noticed or maybe not noticed from your page refreshes and RSS readers things have beep pretty quiet here on the simplehiker blog. To be honest I have been a little depressed… Aimless and I have decided not to thru-hike the Appalachian trail. After a hot and buggy hike in Pictured Rocks […]

Posting will be paused over the holiday weekend. I am actually getting away for a hike. Aimless and I will be given an expert tour of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore by our good friends the Mytyss from Great Lakes Hikes.
I was able to yogi a free sample of Trailblaze Energy Bar mix which Aimless and […]