I had the pleasure of participating in a once-in-a-lifetime event today, the community celebration of the Ocala National Forest’s Centennial. It’s hard to believe this popular recreational resource has only been protected as a National Forest for the past 100 years, but that’s so … back on November 24, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt set aside [...]

Now here’s a man with a plan. Joel, aka “Whitesnake,” a fellow hiker on WhiteBlaze, is working his way down the Florida Trail one weekend at a time. What a brilliant way to knock off a section hike! I did the “Big 360″ middle loop of the Florida Trail that way with my then-boyfriend “Solar [...]