We got a bunch of rain last week; typically that’ll knock a lot of the crud out of the air and create amazing vistas from the hills around the Bay Area. Sunday morning we could see San Francisco from the…
Monthly Archives: December 2005
A good hike gone bad
by tmangan • December 4, 2005 • 4 Comments
Climbing the 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross does not, at a glance, sound especially fraught with trouble. It’s five miles to the summit (on the shortest trail) — granted with 5,000 feet of elevation gain and very thin air.…
Two bloggers walk into a parking lot at…
by tmangan • December 3, 2005 • 0 Comments
I bumped into local blogger/shutterbug Dan Mitchell at the grand opening of a new trailhead in San Jose on Saturday. My writeup here. Here’s a shot Dan getting his lenses in order. Dan’s write-up here.
They didn’t pave paradise, but they did
put up a parking lot
by tmangan • December 3, 2005 • 1 Comment
You’ll have to take my word for it that this was worth doing: I really and truly attended the grand opening of a parking lot on Saturday. Another 50 or so people were there, which means either we were all…
Talk about your cool event
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 2 Comments
I’m sorely tempted to book passage to small Colorado mountain town for Frozen Dead Guy Days.
For all you snow campers
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 0 Comments
A handy tool for building your very own igloo.
No comment necessary
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 0 Comments
This could only appear on Usenet: 250-plus posts about hiking sans clothing.
Mad cow report
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 0 Comments
Somebody hiking at one of my favorite parks was charged by a large cow on the trail there. I hike the same trails all the time — I’ve walked right through crowds of large bulls and had no trouble with…
The lost art of finding your way
by tmangan • December 2, 2005 • 1 Comment
From a Los Angeles Times article on orienteering: From GPS to MapQuest and the most common way-finding device today, the cellphone, technology has made the world safe for the directionally challenged but at the cost of dwindling geographical awareness. “I…