A good trip partner is hard to come by. This was my realization after I moved to a new state and suddenly found my hiking calendar pretty lonely. Though I’d managed to build a social circle in my new ...

ASHEVILLE - There's no reason to be alone in the outdoors. People pick up from cities to move to the Western North Carolina mountains, sometimes on hearsay, sometimes only visiting once, and want to ...

Lots of hikers escape to the woods for peace. Serenity. Solitude. The 4,800 hikers who make up the Westchester Hiking Meetup Group are not among them. “The thing that is really nice about meetups is ...