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Monthly Archives: August 2006
A few backpacking links
by tmangan • August 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Gadling visits a High Sierra lake. Justin shares tips on Shenandoah National Park. Best Hikes links to a hard-core Peruvian adventure.
Speaking of mishaps
by tmangan • August 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Andrew at the Washington Trail Association wants to hear your favorite outdoor gaffes. And there’s this from the Our Hike gals, somewhere in Utah: Then we took our break under a big juniper tree. As we were getting up to…
Map mavens, rejoice!
by tmangan • August 29, 2006 • 0 Comments
Two-Heel Drive reader Erik Cox directed me to the site of a guy who has collected all 56,000 U.S. Geographical Survey maps and intends to make them available to the public. He’s already collected $1,600 to defray his costs and…
Planning your PCT thru-hike?
by tmangan • August 28, 2006 • 2 Comments
Backpacker magazine has a quickie guide. I found this part about starting in Canada and heading south interesting. A few hikers will begin in late June from Manning Provincial Park and hike southbound to Campo. Southbound hikers can still expect…
A Kilimanjaro survivor’s tale
by tmangan • August 28, 2006 • 0 Comments
A writer for the Honolulu Advertiser recounts: At 18,000 feet, the altitude ambushed me. I could barely breathe, and my water bottles were frozen solid. My head pulsed, my legs wobbled like a newborn calf’s and I saw things that…
Warm thoughts of Henry Coe
by tmangan • August 27, 2006 • 3 Comments
Back to the dirt paths this week. I tempted fate and revisited Henry Coe State Park almost a year to the day after an ill-advised trek up the steepest trail in the park under a blazing, north of 95-degree sun.…
Well, this is cool
by tmangan • August 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bone Pac, the guy who was the first to finish the Appalachian Trail this season, has something trailworthy going on: Upon arriving home after the thru-hike I quickly submerged myself into to routine goings-ons of my pre-hike life (which I…
The world according to Funnybone
by tmangan • August 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
AKA Chuckie V, at mile 1595 of the Pacific Crest Trail: Things like this disturb me. How is someone supposed to afford to live in California? To me, it’s not a fair trade (and, in fact, a rather fatuous one)…