Cutter linked to this blog yesterday: LightBackpacking.com. Its author is Bruce Lewis, who lives up north of the Bay Area along the Pacific Coast. Here’s his explanation of why he went light. I grew up in the big suburb city…
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Sierra Challenge
by tmangan • August 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
John Fedak informed me of an event open to anybody who can hike 20-plus miles in a day with 4,000-plus feet of climb at above 9,000 feet. It’s called the Sierra Challenge, organized by a peak-bagging fiend named Bob Burd.…
Found another hiking blog
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 2 Comments
Hiking L.A. is as it sounds: about hikes near Los Angeles. The author is a playwright, which sounds a bit hoity-toity, but the writeups are straightforward “what we say, where went” accounts. From one entry on a hike at Mount…
Straw blogs
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
GoBlog points to the ultimate minimalist backcountry water filter: a straw.
At the Sierra Buttes
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
PCT thru-hiker Funnybone stopped by a rock formation I’ve been itching to check out: The Sierra Buttes are beauts indeed. They’re jagged and isolated from everything around them, propped up without anything but the clear blue sky for a backdrop.…
Heading to Lake Tahoe?
by tmangan • August 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
Reno-Tahoe Blog has a couple interesting destinations: Vikingsholm, a rich Illinois woman’s guest house that’s now owned by California’s state parks; and Nevada petroglyphs, writings and carvings left on rocks by ancient Americans.
More blister tips
by tmangan • August 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Handy reminders from Newswise.com; one of the bunch: Try lubricants and antiperspirants. For short hikes, petroleum jelly and drying powders can help. For longer hikes, antiperspirants containing aluminum chloride hexahydrate have a proven effect by reducing the amount of perspiration…
Death march survivor’s tale
by tmangan • August 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a guy who retraced a real death march, in New Guinea, scene of one of the most terrible hikes in the history of World War II. Campbell recalled hearing about an ill-fated march by a battalion of U.S. infantrymen,…
For your next hiking vacation
by tmangan • August 1, 2006 • 0 Comments
Inn-to-inn hiking is available in Colorado: “It is a type of hiking generally not available in the United States,” Novic says, noting that most American long-distance trails are one continuous route. “Inn-to-inn walks, however, are unbeatable for someone who enjoys…