<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Trailstealth.com</title>
	<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:35:49 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0" -->

	<item>
		<title>June Adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I have been affected by the post Trail Days ‘Summertime Blues’, but sometimes it is difficult to know what to write about for these trail-blogs; I get a bit tired sometimes of saying ‘I did this’ or ‘I did that’, ‘I went here’, or ‘I went there’.  It is easy to become uninspired and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=408</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Trail Days and More&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another month of May has come and gone, and although I didn’t get out to the woods as much as I would have liked to, there were still a few camping and hiking trips to make note of. TRAIL DAYS… First off, there was ‘Trail Days’, the hiker festival in Damascus, Virginia.  I didn’t get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=389</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Latest Waterfall and Mountain Adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, when I first began working as a trail maintenance volunteer on the ‘Jerry Cabin’ section of the Appalachian Trail with the legendary trail maintainer Sam Waddle and his trail maintenance protégé, ‘Rat Patrol’, I suppose I was in fair physical condition—not exactly ‘Superman’, but somewhat resilient, if not mostly indestructible.  Even then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=365</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>March Adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are quite a lot of trail adventures to talk about, so let’s get right to it. Back to Buckeye Falls&#8230; A couple of days after getting back from Buckeye Falls (see previous blog), I showed the foggy waterfall photos that I took from the ridge to my trail-hiking buddy, &#8216;Rat Patrol&#8217;—he said he ‘fell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=349</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Buckeye Falls&#8230;2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conventional geologic theory suggests that the Appalachian Mountains were formed about 420 million years ago when two pre-historic continents crashed into each other, causing the crust of the earth to be splintered, folded and uplifted into what became the Appalachian Range.  Some of the oldest mountains on the planet, the Appalachians used to be much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=325</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Big Pine Ridge and the Unaka Waterfall Hikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Groundhogs Day was just the other day, and it got me thinking about just how early do those people in their suits and hats start hitting the bottle anyway?  I imagine you would have to be quite snockered to stick your hand in a groundhog burrow, drag him out, and parade the poor li’l critter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=302</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>More Trail Adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The holidays are over and the New Year has arrived, along with quite a bit of snow, especially in the mountains.  Despite several distractions, I finally made it out to visit a couple of wilderness trails. The first trip was a nice walk to the falls on Jones Branch near the Nolichucky River.  Fresh storm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=291</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Devil’s Fork Falls and More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Thanksgiving is over, and the winter and holiday season is looming just ahead.  As always, there was much to be thankful for this year, including a great season of backpacking here in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.  Hiking through the Virginia Highlands, for instance, was like winning the Super Bowl, and standing on the ‘Monkey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=264</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The October Hikes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Autumn is now upon us, here in Tennessee, and the harvest season is mostly past, while winter lurks ahead in the winds and shadows&#8211;awaiting to pounce upon and shred our fading dreams of summertime.  For me, it has been a great year for hiking in the southern Appalachian Mountains, harvesting the good experiences as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=249</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Hiking the Highlands of Virginia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a tradition for &#8216;Rat Patrol&#8216; to take some time off every year and go hiking sometime around his birthday.  Last year, him and I hiked the Appalachian Trail from Devil Fork Gap to Allen Gap&#8211;a 20-mile stretch over Flint, Coldspring, and Viking Mountains&#8211;all part of the Bald Mountain Chain of the Appalachians (see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trailstealth.com/blog/?p=203</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
