My hikes typically start in a valley in the morning, where cold air has settled all night, and head uphill. If the valley’s fogged in I’ll hike from cool, moist valley air into sun-warmed hilltop air. I think the experts…
Monthly Archives: April 2006
I’m hiking this morning
by tmangan • April 27, 2006 • 0 Comments
So you’ll have to wait till tomorrow for more of my timeless prose and scintillating links. If any of you Bay Area types are wondering what I think of the Mercury News’ buyer, I wrote about it on my main…
A few days in the wilds of Cameroon
by tmangan • April 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
From an article at allafrica.com: The hiking continued the next day. But instead of finding elephants, the team bumped into five poachers who had killed an elephant and were feasting on its flesh. The poachers, one Bantu and five Bakas,…
Got busted tent poles?
by tmangan • April 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a company in Vancouver, Washington, that will repair any brand. It has a form to fill out with all your tent dimensions.
AT dispatches
by tmangan • April 24, 2006 • 1 Comment
Handlebar, at mile 409.3 Some days the trail is good with few roots and rocks in the tread and I go into auto-pilot hiking allowing my mind to wonder. Today was one of those days and I really got to…
Did a campout over the weekend
by tmangan • April 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Another hike in Henry Coe State Park. This time I did the grueling march to Mississippi Lake and spent the night. Words and pix here.
Overnighter at Mississippi Lake
by tmangan • April 23, 2006 • 2 Comments
Acronym of the week: PUDS is thru-hiker shorthand for “pointless ups and downs”, referring to the less interesting sections of mountains thru-hikers encounter from time to time; several PUDS in a row are MUDS, which is shorthand for “mindless ups…
Sgt. Rock’s been redeployed
by tmangan • April 21, 2006 • 1 Comment
He’s back in Baghdad. From his homepage at hikinghq.net I am alive and working hard here at Camp Justice Iraq. Things here are going as well as they can. Hope everything is going fine for you back in the land…
A good PCT read
by tmangan • April 21, 2006 • 0 Comments
Most trail journalers are far better hikers than writers, which means a fair amount of tedium trolling for bits of Trail Journal entries that seem postworthy. One correspondent whose prose stands out from the rest is Funnybone, who’s already been…