Whispering North sends occasional short essays about quiet, low-traffic camping and canoe trips near Oslo, written as personal trip accounts. It also offers paid route maps for locations the author deliberately withholds from public description.
Website: https://www.whisperingnorth.no/
Southlands is a magazine-style newsletter publishing literary essays, author interviews and dispatches about life, nature and travel in the American South. Readers get long-form personal writing, book recommendations and updates on the print magazine, with some stories behind a paywall.
A personal newsletter of first-person essays about living with multiple sclerosis, covering symptoms, medical experiences like MRIs, and physical challenges such as hiking the Grand Canyon. Readers get vivid, reflective storytelling about uncertainty, fear, and resilience.
Personal essays by a trail runner and hiker on the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite and the Southwest, blending naturalist observation with memoir. Issues cover ecosystem transitions, a stormy point-to-point run, and grief over losing two dogs.
Hiking America shares trail updates and navigation resources for America's long-distance cross-country trails, chiefly the American Discovery Trail and the Great American Rail-Trail. Readers get dispatches from hikers on the ground, water and snow conditions, and news about the site's state-by-state guides and GPS data.
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