It’s unlikely George and Charlie Barber guessed that anyone would remember their backcountry excursion 100 years later as they led a group of hikers to the summit of Mount Le Conte on a late October ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

RAILWAY, ONE OF THE OLDEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS, THE COG HAS LIFTED RIDERS TO THRILLING HEIGHTS INTO THE SKY AND ONTO NEW ENGLAND’S HIGHEST PEAK. BUT THE ...

The first thing I heard was a disconcerting huffing and puffing in the bushes followed by the crescendo of something large and heavy running through the undergrowth in our direction. "Get back!" my ...