I keep promising not to write any more about bodily functions and keep breaking that promise but I have to figure, heck, everybody’s got to go, right? So anyway: The last overnight trip I went on passed a popular lake…
Monthly Archives: July 2006
My PCT pratfall
by tmangan • July 11, 2006 • 2 Comments
There I was, poised on a footpath at Sonora Pass, 9,624 feet up on the Sierra crest, surrounded by stately, snow-clad peaks. Stepping backward to get more mountain into my digicam’s viewfinder, I stumbled on a small rock, landed on…
WildeBeat sighting
by tmangan • July 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
One of the Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers mentions bumping into Steve Sergeant and a friend at a resort along the trail: When I was checking out the bath-house I met WildeGeek and Patty who had just finshed a section of…
Northeast hiker’s blog
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened across Grog’s Blog this morning. It’s a pretty straightforward “here’s where I went, what I saw” hiking journal that offers ideas for checking trails of New England”s mountainous regions.
Our trails, ourselves
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 2 Comments
From a Seattle Times column on how budget cuts are drastically reducing the works of national parks and forests. A typical hiking trail costs, on average, about $1,000 per mile to maintain. Leave it neglected until it has eroded and…
Wheels, motive power, etc.
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 3 Comments
It was probably during the dot-com boom that the marketing department at Honda Automobiles thought “all those young white guys who snowboard all winter and surf, bike and kayak all summer need a car designed just for them.” So they…
Trail compatibility
by tmangan • July 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
The managing editor of New West talks about how hikes become dates when people live near cool trails. It’s true that around here, how two people work together while hiking, biking or kayaking can be a big indicator of the…
Why synthetic clothing reeks to high heaven
by tmangan • July 3, 2006 • 1 Comment
I came home from yesterday’s 12-miler with a stench somewhere between county landfill and EPA Superfund site. This morning I was wondering how a single day-hike could be so malodorous, so I did some googling and found this page explaining…
Bone-Pac finishes the AT
by tmangan • July 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’ve been so busy following Pacific Crest Trail hiker exploits that I neglected to check out the Trail Journal entries of a guy named Bone-Pac, who was one of the fastest hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Well, while I was…