• Thermophile.org - This is the famous and incomparable Sarah Boomer website. Lots of detailed stories about hiking and rafting in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, and other key areas, as well as international travel. Sarah is such an outstanding writer that even if you are not interested in the topic, it is fun to read.
• Dorfworld's Backcountry Trips Section - A sometimes irreverent look at hiking and personal life. Always interesting, with great photo links.
• TwoHikers.org's Picasa Web site - Our very own photo site, that will ultimately have links to it from our new mini-report section of Western Mountains, currently under development. With links on it to some other great photo sites, with more backcountry and travel photos. See what TwoHikers are up to when they are not preparing looooonnggg trip reports.
• Canyoneering USA - Lots of canyoneering descriptions and photos - for the experienced desert rat
• The Best Backpacking Reviews - There are tons of sites related to gear reviews, but this fellow has compiled comments from real trip journals. You will find the comments interesting, even if you don't agree with the conclusions.
• Yeti's 2009 Continental Divide Trail Journal - Ever hear: "I'm too old to hike"?? Yeti, aka Jim Fulmis, blows that myth outta the water, for sure. And follow his travels on his 2010 trip across the Pacific Northwest Trail here.
• Grand Canyon Explorer - Bob Ribokas' definitive site for Grand Canyon hiking, and one of the sites that really inspired us to start TwoHikers.org
• Hiking in Colorado - Steve Fry's definitive and sophisticated site devoted to many of the self propelled pleasures of this truly high country state. A wonderful set of links are included.
• All Things Trudge - Ever want to hike the Appalachian Trail? Take a long look at this site.
• Falling Water - Another detailed AT report, complete with digital calendar.
• The Ultimate Hiking Guide - OK, it may not be the ULTIMATE, but it is probably a good place to start if you need some basic information about hiking. To a beginner, some of the trips described in TwoHikers.org can sound pretty hard-core. If so, give this dating related site a try.

SW Montana and Yellowstone Area Webcams and Weather

• The Bozeman Basecamp Web Cam - Tired of webcams that look like the photo was taken thru a fogged shower door? Need to SEE what the weather looks like on the west side of Montana's Bridger Range? Try our very own Bozeman Basecamp Web Cam. Actually, this is not a typical web cam, but actually a digital digital camera that takes a real photo every 10 minutes, which is uploaded to the Internet. Enjoy the clarity.
• The Balldt.org High Resolution Web cam - Want a screen-filling view of in super high definition of the Bridger Range? Check out the images on the Baxter Meadows Webcam.
• TwoHikers.org's Basecamp Weather Station - Sure you can get the official weather for Bozeman, Montana, except that the weather station is located in Belgrade, Montana at the Gallatin Valley Airport. Given the heterogeneity of Gallatin Valley weather, it would seem that if you want to know what the weather is on the western front of the Bridger Range, check out the Basecamp weather station, located on the back (south facing) deck of the Basecamp.
• The Balldt.org Weather Station - Another Davis weather station located 4.4 miles SW of the Basecamp.
• The Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful Web cam - A classic, and great for checking up how the weather looks before you head to the interior of the park.

Digital Mapping Resources

• Google Earth - If you have not used this yet, you can not possibly imagine what you are missing. Imagine the earth revealed: color photos, and oblique views make this must have software for anyone who has even a moderate speed internet connection. As a friend and colleague from the University of Kentucky confessed to me, the first time someone showed this to him, he was up until 2 am playing with it. So fair warning.
• Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection - Maps for practically everyplace on the Planet
• The Washington State Geospatial Data Archive - A wealth of data to be had for the click of a mouse.
• The Utah Geospatial Data Repository - Another treasure trove of digital mapping data. You have to register now, but worth it.
• Terrain Visualization and Flyby Animation Richard Horne's site has a wealth of information on digital mapping and visualization. He was the first to take the late Sol Katz's code for SDTS conversion to "native" digital elevation format and compile it for Windows. Richard also has available for sale his 3DEM terrain visualization software.
• The original TerraServer Site - Use maps or aerial photos to view your favorite places. Suggestion: Use the map first to find an area that you are looking for, and THEN switch to the aerial photo.

Wilderness Advocacy Groups - think of the lack of opportunities for solitude without them

• The Montana Wilderness Association Working unceasingly to help preserve Montana's wild heritage. And a local group, the Madison-Gallatin Chapter, right here in Bozeman.
• Montanans for Gallatin Wilderness A loosely knit group of conservationists, fighting hard to work for Wilderness designation for the Gallatin mountain range in SW Montana.
• Tennessee Chapter's Harvey Broome Group (Knoxville) No doubt they had plenty of help, but without the leadership of this group, there simply would be no Wilderness in the Cherokee National Forest.
• The Smoky Mountains Hiking Club While ostensibly a club devoted to hiking, in fact, the wilderness advocacy of this group has been critical in preventing further deterioration of this country's most popular National Park. In addition, they are responsible of the maintenance of the Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
• Walkin' Jim Stoltz Is this a hiking site? A music site? An environmental advocacy site? You decide. We have become reaquainted with Walkin' Jim since we have moved to Bozeman, and have been reminded how much he walks his talk, and sings it too. Jim is an environmental minstral who has heightened environmental awareness all over the US. He is also a member of Musicians United to Sustain the Environment, MUSE, who sell their music in support of environmental causes.
• Foothills Land Conservancy Doing what the Nature Conservancy does on a local scale, protecting land the American Way: buying it. We wished that the general population were sufficiently enlightened to protect special places without resorting to this, but it is better than losing these places to development.
• The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - Any group that has been hung in effigy in Escalante, Utah HAS to be doing something right. One of the most passionate and articulate protectors of Utah Wilderness.