Susan Alcorn is a long-distance hiker. She began her wilderness adventures at the age of 48 in order to climb California's Mt. Whitney, at 14, 496 ft. the highest mountain in the U.S.
http://www.examiner.com/x-11423-Bay-Area-Hiking-Examiner I've recently started writing articles for examiner.com and they call me Travel: "East Bay Hiking." I've been writing primarily about regional hikes (here in the San Francisco Bay Area), but I plan to branch out to destinations we've enjoyed elsewhere on the west coast and also in South America, Africa, and western Europe.Here's a ...
I received a funny e-mail today -- at least I thought it was funny. At the same time, it would be cool if it were to happen. The outfitter that I went with when Ralph and I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro last January, Tusker Trails, is extending an invitation to Barack Obama to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. They gave a list of reasons, including that it would bring some positive attention to Africa ...
Why," someone asked me, "do you want to walk 500 miles across Spain?” "Why," my mother asks, "do you walk when you can ride?" Why, when easy travel to exotic or distant places is readily available to most of us, would someone choose to spend a major portion of their traveling time walking through the countryside? Though traveling on foot has challenges, it has ...
