Personal air conditioning, new trails, a dozen new Leave No Trace principles: For Backpacker's 50th anniversary, we asked Triple Crowner and columnist Liz "Snorkel" Thomas to speculate about what thru-hiking could look like a half-century from now.
Will Robinson was about 100 miles into his hike on the Pacific Crest Trail when the dark clouds started to lift. Not the ones high in the California sky, but the ones clustered in his head.
Good morning!The Atlantic 10 portion of the UMass men’s basketball season starts a week from today at St. Bonaventure. In November, oddsmakers installed the Minutemen as 18-1 longshots to win the conference, but those odds improved after a 9-3 record.
The Richmond Pops Band is presenting a special Veterans Day concert in the Altria Theater on Monday, November 7th. VPM's Mike Goldberg shares excerpts from a talk with Music Director Earl Shaffer about the upcoming performance.
This week Inside Appalachia, we travel to Charleston, West Virginia, to learn about the importance of funeral singers to Black communities. We’ll also hear about a new tool whose maker believes he can help save thousands of lives from fatal opioid overdoses. And we talk with author Barbara Kingsolver about the influence of Appalachia in her books.