Word: hiker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...every hiker in the Indian Himalayas gets this kind of reception. But be prepared for the unexpected if you leave the beaten track or the pilgrims' paths. This is a part of the world where having more than one husband is usual, sheepdogs wear protective tin ruffs to save them from leopards, and paths are often made of silver and gold quartz. And in these strange lands, foreigners are definitely exotic. Unlike Nepal where trekking is a developed industry and walking routes are lined with tea shops selling apple strudel and Swiss r?sti?one of my companions actually claimed...
...four then stumbled across another lost hiker, Alan Carpentier, a 28-year-old mechanical engineer from Londonberry...
...them. Currently in the works are projects ranging from a solar-powered, unmanned plane with a wingspan nearly as large as a football field to a pocket-size device that substitutes for a visit to the health club to a contraption that literally makes a backpacking hiker light on his feet...
...snapped onto most conventional bicycles in a few seconds, converting them to electric models. Of his newer gadgets he seems most proud of Technalegs, a strap-on contraption with little, jointed, lockable, telescoping "intelligent canes" that can support as much as three-quarters of the weight of a hiker and his backpack. "You can carry your wife on your back all day without getting tired," he jokes...
...descent is much harder than the ascent, but you don't know that yet. The novice hiker is leg weary as you near the cottonwood trees of the first oasis, 3,000 ft. below the rim. It's much hotter here than at the trailhead, and you flop down in the shade and briefly commune with Kit Carson and Charles Lindbergh and Sir Edmund Hillary and wonder, "Can I make it back up?" The answer is yes. Absolutely...