Hiking in My own back yard
354306
I did not know that PA had so many trails that can be day hiked or for weeks on end. This is a good place to start if you want to see if you can handle it before trying to hike th AT all the way.
3988974
I like the style, it looks very cool in our back yard.
1635063
I use t-posts around the yard some times to fence off the dogs to let plants grow.  Makes me feel safer especially on odd terrain, hills, rocks, etc where you could trip (or a dog trips you) and catch the post end in the face!
2000537
very well made, looks great in the back yard
2435816
What a fun addition to our yard! We recently put in a covered patio in our back yard and living in the Portland, OR area, we get more than our share of rain! It's so fun sitting back there and watching the rain run down the chain; it sounds like we have a little fountain. I highly recommend!!
3071622
Exactly what I wanted for a causal hike..just the right size and light weight for a short walk
4145796
Another great book for those who want to grow berries in their own back yard!
3598530
In other lawn product reviews I've recounted how I moved into a house last summer after spending the 42 years after high school living in dorms and apartments. The house into which I've moved in Little Rock, Arkansas is just about perfect for me: just large enough to hold all of my stuff but not too large for me to clean and keep straight. The one huge negative was the yard. Maybe a third of the yard was barren, with nothing but hard-packed earth, with additional patches filled with rock and gravel. Vast stretches of the yard were covered by leaves that hadn't been raked within memory, while much of what was left was left consisted of a countless number of weeds.

I'm still fighting all the problems in my yard. I don't have the money to have multiple loads of fresh topsoil dumped into my yard. So I'm having to revive my yard the hard way. I've scaped the hard to get all of the crud that has accumulated over time and picked up as many rocks and gravel as I could. I've added fertilizer and used weed killer to destroy as much of the stuff that I didn't want. I used both Scotts Turf Builder and a couple of different kinds of seed - for both shade and for mixed shade and sunlight. The results have been encouraging. I need to break up some sections of turf so that it is more receptive to seed, but all in all I'm encouraged. I still have large sections that need breaking up and even have a spot where there is a hunk of concrete that I am trying to bust up with a sledge hammer. And I have regularly added Scotts Turf Builder and see. Each time I have added seed or turf builder I gain just a little on the barren parts of the yard. I water regularly and have come to look forward to rain in the forecast (30% chance of rain tomorrow at 7:00 am).  And I have used lots and lots of Scotts products. To be completely honest, my use of Scotts is a victory for advertising and name recognition. Scotts is the only brand of lawn seed that I could have named before going to work on my yard and it has done an excellent job of meeting expectations. There are few things more satisfying than laying down a thin layer of grass seed, watering it, and then have fresh grass crop up in that spot two weeks later.
157449
Yep racoons! I have a great view from my back yard with a house pasture, mountains and horses, not my horses. Before you feel sorry for yourself, horse poop and huge horse flies! Yep, Oregon is great!

So back to this, only bought one, thingy. I have bird houses. I know, who cares... but wait... I just happened to line them up along a corner fence like steps in a stair case. Yep, those raskels just stepped down into my back yard. Now you are wondering how does she know that, racoons come out at night? Well... one of the houses only had one screw in it, by accident, or luckily. The critter must have stepped down and  pushed the birdhouse off center by 2". No wind there.

I used flat, small "L" brackets to secure a cut out section to the tops of the houses and where they are starting to come over.

Viola!  Now to deal with a cute little long eared gray bunny that my small dogs have found and are chasing around. In my city you can capture an animal but you then have to let it loose only on your property!!! What?? Yep, must be an old law or they lost some marbles in this Oregon heat, 90-100

I then saw this idea on a DIY tv show, put chicken wire on the ground, add yard landscaping pins cover with bark, if trying to get cats out of your yard. Yep, I've got neighbor cats. I heard larger bark works better but I forgot.
3088034
This guide is great for the trails around my home area.  I kind of wished I ordered the paperback version though just because I don't really like e-books
1102627
OK, I suppose it's a sad sign of my miserable life, but I have so little free time that I have to approach taking a hike like a consumer buying a new vacuum cleaner or going to the movies ... I want to find the best places to spend my precious bits of money and freedom. So that's how I look at trail guides (and I have a whole shelf of them). I want them to get me to the trailhead efficiently, give me a good idea of the trail condition and difficulty, and a good appraisal of what I may or may not expect on the hike (with a little left over to make some of my own discoveries). It's worth $15 for the advice, assuming it's GOOD advice.
So far I've hiked a pair of trails in this book and it was right on. First was Strong Creek outside of the town of Hope (which has really great views over Lake Pend Oreille). The trailhead was completely unmarked and I never would have found it without the description in the book. Beautiful, easy hike as promised in the book. The second was St. Paul Lake in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. Trailhead was easier to find and the descriptions of the trail were all good, including the hint to look for the huge western white pine just off the trail and for the bubbling spring a couple miles in. That's the kind of stuff I like. This is a hike to a beautiful pothole lake.
We even had fun coming back from that hike -- we stopped at a tavern on the highway outside of Noxon and one of the folks there saw me reading the book and went on a rant about the writer and how we could meet him if we hung around for a bit longer as he was coming in "pretty soon." We hung around for a while but had to take off. This guy is a regular rock star in that part of Montana.
The Cabinet Mountains have some real beautiful places, lightly used, and so far this book has not disappointed.
1674787
Someday I hope to be brave enough to hike a thru hike.  But even if I never can do it myself Mr. Miller has given me a hike in my imagination through his words.  Nice descriptions of sights, wild life and scenery right down to small wildflowers.  Very honest as to physical hardships and mental-emotional ones also.  Thank you for not downplaying the hard parts.  Maybe some day you will do the CDT or PCT and write about them.
525666
I thru hiked the AT in 16 and couldn't get long distance hiking out of my head ever since. Ive been on the fence about taking on another thru and this book was enough to tip the scale. PCT 18 begins next month.
302352
I really enjoyed this book . Loner's account of his through hike made me want to put on my backpack and hit the trail !
3477459
I didn't get to use this out yet but I walked around at home with it and love it! Really easy to use and the two different handles are really useful. This will def. be a lot more comfortable than going hiking with my dog and wrapping my dogs metal leash around my hand while he pulls. Can't wait to use this during our next hiking trip. Def. recommend.
3525137
I spent the 4th of July in northern Idaho with my parents.  They live on 18 acres of forest land.  It is so beautiful and in the past my children would take long walks on the property.  My parents have seen many wild animals up close, including bears (one stood looking at them through a sliding glass door, and another who regularly climbed up a tree in their garden, very close to their house.  They've probably seen half a dozen altogether).  An acquaintances daughter was attacked by a bear, and ever since then I've been afraid to go in the woods.  This large and powerful canister allowed us, for the first time, to really enjoy the woods without the thought of being mauled by a bear.  It was a great comfort.  Tried out one blast and it worked perfectly.
4242875
Love it...have 2 in my back yard ...VERY...VERY Comfortable...