I decided to stay behind for a few days and climb Carrauntoohil, the highest mountain in Ireland. This hiking guide contains everything you need to know about climbing this mountain yourself – which route to chose, how hard it is, what to bring and what to wear. Are you ready?
For our trail-running mountain goats out there, treadmills offer a chance to give those legs a much-needed break. Constant ups and downs can take a toll on your joints and muscles. Treadmill running allows you to maintain your fitness with some gentler, flatter runs. It's all about balanc...
most likely in the neighbors yard. When trapped indoors, regardless whether the litter box was oriented on a North-South or East-West axis, they manage to fling all the litter onto the laundry room floor
How to Care For Your SkinsWhat Materials are Climbing Skins Made From? Back in the day, climbing skins were actually made of seal skin (hence the name) but now are composed of some combination of nylon and/or mohair (a natural fiber that comes from Angora goats - no mo's were sheared...
Although the steep mountain ridges added extra defensive value to the Great Wall, they also posed significant challenges for transporting construction materials. Workers had to rely on human strength or use animals such as goats and donkeys to carry heavy building materials up the mountains....
The bacteria that cause typhus, Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi, spread to people through the bites of fleas or lice. People who are infected can become very sick and often have a fever that may climb as high as 105 to 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Murine typhus is the variety seen ...
While it's not without its faults, if you've lived in Evansville your whole life like me, or at least long enough to remember a time when "The Lloyd" didn't exist, you have to admit it makes getting from the west side to the east side and all points in between much easier and ...
communicate with your buddies so that each one of you in your group doesn’t each pack a water filter — after you climb 2,000 feet of elevation and are sitting around camp wicked tired, the last thing you want to see is two of your buddies pulling out water filters in addition to ...
Looking up at the horizon brought no comfort because I couldn’t ignore the never-ending hill that I still had to climb. I knew I would survive the hike, of course, but that thought evaporated like a mirage when compared to the pain I knew I must endure first. So when we finally mad...