Apart from the materials they’re made of—carbon-fiber, titanium, aluminum, steel, synthetic rubber, vinyl, Teflon—today’s bicycles are strangely unchanged from those of a century ago. If you doubt it, consider the picture of the 1899 Quad Stay Eagle on this page: Didn’t someone pass you on that thing last weekend at Carrier Park? Tried and true: […]
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Outdoor Journal
The sociability of the long-distance runner: Interested in making your long runs in the company of others? Henderson County YMCA’s Greg Walker has organized Sunday runs at Lake Summit in Tuxedo. Join for fellowship and the support of fellow running styles: eight-minute, nine-minute and 10-minute mile pace groups are represented. Most of the running takes […]
Practically alive
The lion was big; that much was clear. He stood off about 200 yards in a scour between miles of unbroken savanna, tawny from the season’s drought. A fair breeze lifted the big cat’s mane. His nostrils flared, straining to catch a scent. Bill Fuchs and his wife, Linda, had come to Tanzania with their […]
Dust off your binoculars, people!
The Great Backyard Bird Count is imminent.
Buncombe Commissioners: The slate is swelling
The opening of the filing period for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners race is still nearly a week away, but already the horses are jostling the gate. And for good reason: This year, all four commissioners’ seats are open, along with the chairman’s seat. And while we can’t be sure exactly who will opt […]
Outdoor Journal
Walk this way: If you’re curious about the future of trails and greenspace in Buncombe County, visit the county Web site (www.buncombecounty.org) and have a gander at the draft map of these areas. If you’ve got your own ideas of where you’d like to see trails wind or open space left open, contact Linda Giltz […]
Donation will help a forest grow
DuPont company gifts 35 critical acres to the state.
Local tomatoes get star power
Haywood County has taken to promoting its produce on the web.
Return of the native
Arboretum forces the growing season with a native-plants symposium.
Outdoor Journal
Blending in: The North Carolina Wildlife Federation has launched a grassroots campaign, called the Camouflage Coalition, aimed at uniting hunters and anglers to help protect fish-and-wildlife habitat. Linked by the Internet, Camouflage Coalition members are able to get critical and timely information about legislation and policy changes affecting wildlife management and outdoor recreation in the […]
Ball’s in your court
Asheville wants help with its parks and recreation master plan.
Rambo’s back, and he’s mad as hell
The theater/eatery Cinebarre will try to assuage his pique with a special event.
Seeing the glass half full
Asheville establishments score high in online beer contest
The Renaissance will rise again
Eric Scheider was 17 when he first heard a live performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.” Williams’ homage in strings to his 16th century musical predecessor lasts a little longer than 15 minutes, but it was time enough to send Scheider to a rapturous place. “That was the first […]
Welcome to the machine
Anyone who’s drunk a fair amount of wine knows the experience of spending $25 or more on a bottle of a promising vintage, only to be rewarded with the taste of moldy cork and gravelly tannins. Move over, Dr. Seuss: Vino Vino’s Enomatic wine machine puts high technology in service of an ancient beverage. Photo […]
Outdoor Journal
Drawing on nature: Starting early next month, Warren Wilson College will exhibit Konrad Zoll’s “Visual Notes from the Appalachian Trail,” a collection of landscape sketches and natural-history details made along the fabled hiking path. Zoll’s work will be on display from Feb. 8 to March 26 at the college’s Elizabeth Holden Gallery. An opening reception, […]
Askville: Picking up what they’re laying down
No one knows who the unlucky person was that first stepped on a dog turd. After all, it probably happened 10,000 years or more ago, when wolves first began to appear at the margins of human settlement. But it’s not hard to imagine the expression on that person’s face. Even today, very few regularly encountered […]
Good food never looked so weird
At Warren Wilson College, where truffles are all the talk
Wurst-case scenario
Several weeks ago, I asked the editor of this section if I could write the occasional column on locally made sausage. The day before I made my request, I had passed a sign outside a produce stand in north Asheville that read “FRESH SAUSAGE,” and nearly caused a multiple-car pileup trying to drive off the […]
Outdoor Journal
Wild women, unite!: The North Carolina Wildlife Commission is headed our way with its “Becoming an Outdoors Woman” retreat, scheduled for April 11 to 13 at Camp Cheerio in Alleghany County. The program will include instruction on bird-watching, basic camping and backpacking, canoe skills, digital photography, wilderness survival, outdoor cooking, stream ecology, rock climbing, shotgun […]
Twilight of the giants
On a brittle morning last February, Will Blozan and his colleague, Jess Riddle, along with fellow arborists Jason Childs and Josh Kelley, drove west from Black Mountain to Cataloochee Valley, in the eastern part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The peaks that surround the valley—Mount Sterling and Mount Guyot—were a confection of frozen […]