There’s something particularly enchanting about islands. Being on a piece of land surrounded by water seems to create an inimitable feeling of separation and serenity.  When an island features 17-miles of undeveloped shoreline, more than 9,000 acres of federally designated wilderness, lush maritime forest and feral horses, the sense of enchantment is apt to be even more profound. Perhaps that’s why the three-night backpacking trip my friend John and I took to Cumberland Island National Seashore so incredibly exceeded the reasonably high expectations we had set . . .

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

November 2012

Although I'm an avid backpacker, with over 150 nights out in the past five years, I've only spent a dozen or so nights in national parks. 

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I am going to start this thread as a way for me to keep the non Facebook users aware of the things that we are sharing on Facebook.  My plan will be to update this thread with some kind of link to the new information that has been added to Facebook without requiring you to go there to see it.