Jennifer Pharr Davis broke the women’s record on the Appalachain Trail in 2008. It took her 57 days. This year (The 2011 hiking season) she smashed the men’s record as well, taking on ly 46 days and 11 hours. Unbelievable. Scott Williamson broke the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) record in 2009. UNSUPPORTED, he did it in 65 days. Olympian-like feat as those of us who have hiked the PCT know. Who could break their records? Objectively,...

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2011 is shaping up to be the deadliest year in Yosemite in recent memory. A San Ramon woman who fell to her death Sunday from Half Dome was the 14th person to die in the national park this year. Haley LaFlamme, 26, was descending the dome’s rain-soaked granite face using mounted cables around noon Sunday when she slipped and fell 600 feet. Yosemite typically sees five or six deaths by the end of July and 12 to 15 by the year’s end, said...

No shortage of tall talesEd Grisamore – gris@macon.com Sign up for daily e-mail news alerts ——————————————————————————– E-Mail Print Reprint|license Text Size: tool nameclose tool goes here Bill Walker knows what it’s like to be the tallest guy in the room. At 6-foot-11,...

The first biq question an American pilgrim has is how to get to the Camino. The Camino Frances, which is the main route of El Camino de Santiago, begins at St. Jean’s Pied de Port in the very southern part of France. Most Americans choose to fly to either Madrid or Barcelona, and take the bus or train from there to Pamplona. In the high summer months, there is a bus that leaves each day from Pamplona at 2 in the afternoon and arrives at...