Sun’s a comin’ up, skies looking clear, which means I’m hiking this morning, but I plucked these notable links from the predawn gloom:

Must Be This Way is a UK-based walking & trekking blog I found the other day. Latest post tells of a very old woman taking her dog to Everest.

GoBlog has a nice post about light-packing legend Ray Jardine.

Justin of My Outdoor Adventures has updated his site, fixed his RSS feed and offered his tips for getting in shape for backpacking.

Gadling links to a couple lunatics hiking to the North Pole in the pitch-black dead of winter (they leave next week).

WildeBeat interviews the creator of The Outdoors Club.