Arkansas is lucky to be the home of not one but two jewels in the realm of long-distance hiking trails. The Ozark Highlands Trail and the Ouachita Trail draw hikers from across the country and around ...

Earlier this month, I answered the Ozark Highlands Trail Association's "Call to Arms." This was the first of four maintenance base camps that the nonprofit organization has scheduled to prepare the ...

It was the middle of a long Montana winter, and I needed an escape. The landscape was a canvas of snow-covered peaks, beautiful yet isolating, and the relentlessly short, cold days gnawed at my morale ...