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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Getting fit for the trail
by tmangan • May 26, 2006 • 4 Comments
Here’s a nice intro to getting your legs ready for hiking. Last spring I did a bunch of training hikes with 40 pounds of dead weight in a monster backpack. One thing I figured out was that the more you…
Ryan Jordan’s Arctic 1000
by tmangan • May 25, 2006 • 9 Comments
Ryan Jordan of Backpackinglight.com fame has rolled out a new blog for his 1000-kilometer traverse of remote Arctic tundra. The objectives are simple: Walk. Eat. Rest. With an emphasis on the first two. Ultralight gear is not a chosen style…
Aspen Times reports mountain lion sighting
by tmangan • May 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
Unfortunately, no trendy rich people were eaten. (This link brought to you by the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson).
Another Utah trek
by tmangan • May 24, 2006 • 0 Comments
UT Outdoors blog profiles the not-so-miserable Misery Canyon: The approach canyon started the day off right. Tall cliffs through a deep open canyon covered with all types of vegetation. The contrast of green tress and bushes in front of soaring…
A PCT dispatch
by tmangan • May 23, 2006 • 3 Comments
Jen and Juice, at mile 277 on the Pacific Crest Trail: What a night it was. I slept fairly soundly, Jenny on the other hand, was up most of the night conviced that the next huge gust was going to…
I’m so there
by tmangan • May 23, 2006 • 1 Comment
What to see in southern Utah: After lunch, we head to Bryce Canyon National Park for a hike among the hoodoos – those bizarre, pointy rocks formed by erosion that spike up into the cloudless blue Utah sky. Trails twist…
Solar battery chargers: anybody use them?
by tmangan • May 23, 2006 • 3 Comments
I happened across this post on a UK blog about a folding-panel solar recharging kit and it made me wonder if anybody actually uses such a thing on the trail. It sounds like one of those “great ideas” that people…
Get ’em away from their X Boxes
by tmangan • May 23, 2006 • 0 Comments
A story from the newspaper in Caspar, Wyoming, tells about a camp geared toward teens. “A lot of these kids come into this with no intentions of being a leader,” said Dano Camp board member Joyce Ostrom. “But before long,…