The only thing easy about Henry Coe State Park is the decision to go there. Easy because you can camp out almost anywhere you want without reserving a campsite. The odds are heavily in your favor that you’ll have much…
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Getting your pack on a plane
by tmangan • June 9, 2006 • 4 Comments
A thread at alt.rec.hiking discusses the usual issues of whether to take a fuel bottle on a plane (in a word: no) and what to do to avoid pack straps getting caught in baggage-handling machinery. This looked like an interesting…
Another cow encounter
by tmangan • June 9, 2006 • 5 Comments
I’m getting sick of cows. They are big, they are stupid, and they leave stupendous piles of crap on the trail that I inevitably step in. The other day I was on my morning hike and had to navigate through…
Washington Trails Association’s excellent Web site
by tmangan • June 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Andrew Engelson, editor of Washington Trails magazine, sent me a kind e-mail yesterday and pointed me to the blog of the Washington Trails Association. It’s just one fine element of a truly great Web site kept by the trails association.…
Blog well and they will come
by tmangan • June 8, 2006 • 4 Comments
One admirable thing our good GoBlog pal Climb_Ca did the other day was encourage everybody to stop by the Outdoors Pro blog and buck up its author, Mark, A U.S. Navy veteran and current ski/rafting guide who laments his traffic…
GoBlog has been to the Holy Land!
by tmangan • June 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Who’da Thunk? Now obviously the area is dangerous. Dahab was just bombed by extremists. But, as I tell my friends, there’s never a good time to visit and I’ve been there a lot. But if you go, I can recommend…
The AT as Ultimate Summer Camp
by tmangan • June 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Jordan McCarron at mile 799.1 of the Appalachian Trail: We can play outside from the moment the sun comes up until it goes down and even then we can sleep out in tents. We can have campfires and make s’mores…
Oregon outdoors blog
by tmangan • June 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened up on The Outsider, a blog hosted by the Register Guard in Eugene, Ore. The blogger is John Rezell, who seems to be having a bit of a challenge getting anybody to write back to him via his blog’s…
Hiking in the heat
by tmangan • June 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a thread full of useful tips at rec.backcountry. On Sunday I did my usual trick of throwing a tray of ice cubes into the hydration bladder. While I was fumbling through the fridge I remembered the fresh melon Melissa…