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Monthly Archives: July 2006
The most addictive thing since
How about them bugs?
by tmangan • July 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
GoBlog and National Parks Traveler weigh in on the subject of what attracts mosquitoes to people. GoBlog notes that resarchers are just beginning to study genetic factors that might explain why some people attract mosquitoes like pilgrims to Mecca and…
Careful what you read in the paper
by tmangan • July 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
From an item in the Washington Post a couple weeks back, noting how national parks attendance is down because people are too busy with videogames, DVDs and, ahem, the Internet. Pergams and Zaradic even coined a term for this increased…
Hiking on a ski slope
by tmangan • July 18, 2006 • 5 Comments
No self-respecting reader of this blog would ever stoop to visiting a ski area, trudging to the top of one of the runs, and riding the gondola back down, right? We have to be snobs about something, after all.
I think he’d really rather have his hand back
by tmangan • July 18, 2006 • 6 Comments
Rocky Mountain News profiles Aron Ralston, whose path to fame and fortune involved cutting off a limb to save his fanny. Now he’s swimming in cash from speaking engagements, commercial endorsements, book royalties, etc. Ralston said the book advance exceeded…
Hiking with a tiny babe
by tmangan • July 18, 2006 • 1 Comment
One of the New West writers recounts a hike with her month-old baby. This was my favorite part. Nursing in the Woods: Not as Freaky as Anticipated The kid was going to need to eat a few times along our…
Playing well with others
by tmangan • July 18, 2006 • 3 Comments
The worrywarts tell us: never hike alone, but pretty much all of us do it probably most of the time, because it’s so much easier to just find your way to a trailhead and start walking than it is to…
Another two days in the wilderness
by tmangan • July 17, 2006 • 6 Comments
It’s about 2 in the morning and I’m staring into the black nylon of my sleeping bag. I should be staring out the little hole that makes this a "mummy-style" bag, but my twisting and turning has entered the Olympic…
A couple quick outing reports
by tmangan • July 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
The Dude spent five days scrambling, fishing and camping in wilds of Montana. Many mountain goats visited his campsite: We skeedaddled and left the goats to paw up the ground where we had peed the night before. Yes, they were…