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The boardwalk connects to a trail to create a two-mile loop.

Mountain Curios: Lovers Lane Returns after 80 Years

The official opening of the new version of the Webster Springs, West Virginia boardwalk will take place in the spring.
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Mill Creek Stories: Aging Novice (Wait, Matching Boots?)

You’ve heard that old adage about true love? The couple that Ben-Gays together, stays together.
Beware of the hairy Bigfoot model at The Sasquatch Museum in Georgia.

Mountain Curios: North Georgia’s Bigfoot Museum

Did a Bigfoot save a guy’s life in 2000? And how about the guy who didn’t go into the woods for five years after seeing one?
Jamie Cyphers is the granddaughter of the man who came up with the first Long Island Iced Tea recipe, in the 1920s.

Mountain Curios: Long Island Tennessee – The Real Home of Long Island Iced Tea

The original recipe was cooked up during Prohibition in Kingsport, Tennessee. Jamie Cyphers says her grandma went to jail for it.
The Appalachian Trail shelter in this 1955 photo is strongly suggestive of old ways remaining alive today; the chair and the packs not so much. Kurt Rheinheimer (green hat), here with his late father, also seems to have changed a bit over those years.

From the Editor: Army-Surplus Canteens and Packs – Keeping the Old Ways Alive (or not)

The accoutrements for hiking have changed over the years, but remnants of the old ways remain.
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

April 12, 2018

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