On a sunny day, the route to Tomales Point is breathtaking. The roar of the Pacific Ocean crashing against the cliffs. Cool breezes all the way from Japan. Elk the size of stallions grazing on a hillside. Yesterday wasn’t one…
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Off hiking today
by tmangan • November 6, 2005 • 0 Comments
For my upcoming birthday, my wife bought me a guided day hike at Tomales Point from this outfit called Absolute Adventures. With any luck I’ll see giant thule elk mating (or at least calling out for love. They call it…
Hut to hut hiking
by tmangan • November 5, 2005 • 3 Comments
A New York Times travel piece has several useful links. The Alps are said to have the best-maintained, most extensive hut system in the world. The Austrian National Tourist Office, at www.austria.info, (212) 944-6880, for example, can provide a free…
Lost in the wilds of Mexico
by tmangan • November 5, 2005 • 0 Comments
Much wilder than the guy expected, it turned out. The link is to a New York Times review of a book called “Trail of Feathers, Searching for Philip True,” by Robert Rivard. True was a reporter for the San Antonio…
Ain’t Google great?
by tmangan • November 4, 2005 • 0 Comments
If you Google “hiking blog,” Two-Heel Drive is first on the list! Now all we have to do is find some people interested in searching on those words.
All about undies
by tmangan • November 4, 2005 • 0 Comments
A thread at BackpackingLight on boxers vs. briefs. Something else I learned the hard hard way: regular old briefs ain’t made for walking long distances. They get all knotted up down there and end up chafing the hell out of…
The people you meet
by tmangan • November 4, 2005 • 0 Comments
A SierraTopix thread on people you meet on the trail. The first page of the first chapter of Hiking for Dummies, if such a book exists, you’re apt to find the standard advice: Don’t walk alone. And yet: everybody does…
Mud season looms
by tmangan • November 4, 2005 • 0 Comments
The Bay Area of California gets six months of dry weather, and six months of rainy weather. It’s nothing like Seattle — I think our average rainfall at peak is about half of what it is up there. But still:…
The Wikipedia’s entry on hiking
by tmangan • November 3, 2005 • 0 Comments
Lots of nifty details in this entry at Wikipedia.org, the online encyclopedia. Hiking’s the main thing I do outdoors — keeps the gear/complication costs down (what’s with bikes and all those sprockets, chain links and tires that go flat, anyway?)…