Til the Last Hemlock Dies

Well, I've now owned an ebook reader for about three months. My first impression of the ebook phenomenon was that it was horrible and I ...

I don't think I've ever been this tired in my life. I had to pass up a hiking trip so that I could actually spend Sunday as a day of...

From Robert Mathis Kurtz comes the first installment of a new zombie trilogy: THE COALITION! STATE OF EXTINCTION : When the dead rose to ...

A neat place that's relatively easy to get to in the Linville Gorge Wilderness is a pair of mountain peaks called "The Chimneys...

A bit back I posted about one of the coolest waterfalls I have ever seen: Virgin Falls in Tennessee. It's a waterfall that appears out o...

One of the highlights of our Yellowstone/Grand Tetons vacation was a rafting trip down the Yellowstone River. One thing about the West--I...

The anthology THE DEVIL'S COATTAILS is now out and available for purchase. The first anthology edited by Jason Brock and William Nolan ...

Argh. The last few months have been tough. I keep plugging away at working as a laborer full time and then also working as a writer almost e...

377 feet??!! Yep. Definitely some dick bias going on there.

My last stop of the day was Wiseman's View. It's a National Forest site along the Kistler Highway. It does indeed offer pretty much ...

Since the part of the Parkway where I wanted to hike was closed to me, I hopped off an the village of Linville Falls and drove over to the K...

After I left Hunt Fish Falls I hopped in my truck and headed for the Blue Ridge Parkway. To do this, I took Forest Service Road 981 which in...

While I was hanging out at Hunt Fish Falls I noticed some weird-looking stuff floating in a pothole out on the bare granite expanses below t...

I was able to get away on Sunday for a hike in the mountains. Since I was going solo again I didn't want to go bushwhacking. I promised ...

I managed to go hiking yesterday. My trip was scrambled by a number of factors, all dealing with the (changing) weather. I'll post detai...