Over at The Florida Hiker, there’s a great blog post right now on learning to wield a chainsaw for the sake of trail maintenance. The Florida Trail Association offers these free workshops to their members several times a year, and if you want to go out and work with a trail crew on the FT, [...]

I added this blog feed (to be accompanied by my own personal asides on hiking) to Twitter yesterday. Keep up and comment at http://twitter.com/floridahikes.  You can follow my own rambles on a variety of topics, including hiking, at http://twitter.com/sandrafriend. Now get out there and enjoy this cool weather, perfect for Florida hiking!

It’s officially winter in Florida, when thoughts turn to pink flamingos … and Everglades National Park.  For the next 90 days or so, it’s prime time to visit this unique wilderness along the tip of Florida’s peninsula.  “There are no other Everglades in the world,” wrote Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, advocate for the creation of the [...]