September 2006
Featured Stories: Blackwater Canyon: Our Next National Park?
Apparently, death threats aren’t that big of a deal in West Virginia. When a state senator claimed certain environmentalists threatened to kill her and three other people over a piece of legislation that would fund a National Park feasibility study in the Highlands of West Virginia, nobody seemed too concerned.
Featured Stories: Hardest Hundreds
Want to join the century club? The Blue Ridge boasts some of the biggest, baddest 100 mile tests of endurance - from 100-mile mountain ultramarathon runs to singletrack century bike rides. Do you have what it takes to go the distance?
Switchback: Is it ok to run 'bandit' in a race?
Reader Forum
Switchback: Next Month's Switchback
Reader Forum
News of the Wood: Footbagging Frenzy: Hacky Sacking in the Southeast
Footbag isn’t just the sport you played in the parking lot after school. In fact a lot of people take it quite seriously. It’s been competitive sport in several forms since the 1970’s—with a substantial number of footbag tournaments and festivals held around the world every year.
More Columns & Stories:
- News of the Wood: Great Eastern Trail: An A.T. Alternative?
- News of the Wood: Running in Reverse: The Benefits of Backwards Running
- News of the Wood: Rails-to-Trails Roundup
- Escape: Deep Creek Lake, MD
- Overlook: 24 Hours of Sci-Fi
- Southbound: Yonder Mountain String Band
- Southbound: John Cowan Band: New Tattoo
- Southbound: Casey Driessen; 3D
- Southbound: Cool Haunts
- Southbound: Mtn. Stage Happenings
- Happy Trails: Hump Mountain, TN
- Running: Training for Your First Ultra
- Biking: In Praise of the Triple Ring
- Hiking: A Hike Beneath the Hemlocks
- Adventure: By Gauley! Classic Runs and Timely Tips for Gauley Season
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