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The Big Freeze: Winter Camping at Rock Creek Campground

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanFebruary 10, 2016leave a COMMENT

Why anyone would consider camping in the middle of January is beyond me, but it was something I’d never done, so one Friday afternoon I began to consider it. I …

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Up a Creek With No Name

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanJanuary 6, 2016leave a COMMENT

I had reached that stage of holiday exhaustion where too much consumption and stimuli had veiled me in a narcotic mist of fatuous inertia. Nothing would restore my senses like an …

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Historically Low Water Levels at Chilhowee Lake Offer Up a Surprising Catch

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanNovember 4, 2015leave a COMMENT

“What is that thing?” biologist Drew Crain said when the fish on my line came into view, shimmering in the clear water. People standing on the bank of drawn-down Chilhowee …

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A Walleye Is Finally Caught, and a Personal Quest Ends

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanOctober 7, 2015leave a COMMENT

For almost a year now, I’ve been paddling my kayak in pursuit of the East Tennessee walleye. I’ve heard people claim they’ve caught walleye—a pikeperch native of the upper Midwest—and …

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A Last Look at Boomsday—From the Tennessee River

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanSeptember 9, 2015leave a COMMENT

Like most paddlers, I usually employ my canoe or kayak to escape the cacophony of civilization: motors sputtering, roaring and emitting fumes; people arguing; barbaric yawps of pleasure or pain; …

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