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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Good for guys, too
by tmangan • October 31, 2006 • 1 Comment
Bella Online, "The Voice of Women," has a hiking and backpacking editor named Jill Florio, who recommends tossing a few emergency rations in her pack. My day hiking X-Rations are usually extra Luna Bars, a few packets of instant oatmeal…
High wind cause havoc at Great Smoky
by tmangan • October 31, 2006 • 0 Comments
National Parks Traveler reports on a storm that brought hurricane-force winds to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park: Winds topped out at 106 mph during the event back on October 16th and 17th. Park officials say the most significant structural…
Get thee to a military academy
by tmangan • October 31, 2006 • 0 Comments
You have to promise you’re not one of Osama’s henchmen before clicking on this link: The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has opened up a bunch of trails closed to the public after the 9/11 attacks. Demand for trails…
Live from the Minami Alps
by tmangan • October 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bastish is having some fun backpacking in Japan: Just 20 meters up the trail, over a small hill, the screams continued and my mind raced to connect their chilling echo to something, anything, I have heard in the past –…
A Scoutmaster’s blog
by tmangan • October 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the bio page of a blogging Scoutmaster: I am a liberal card carrying member of the ACLU, a Buddhist and a stone cold Democrat. Most people would say that Scouting is not a likely fit for me, but I…
Another “Our Hike” update
by tmangan • October 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
From an e-mail that came in this morning regarding Robin Grapa and Patty Laatsch finishing their near-5,000 mile hike of the American Discovery Trail: They finished 8 months, 23 days and 5 hours after they started the journey at Cape…
A pleasant hike
by tmangan • October 29, 2006 • 0 Comments
This is the driest, sunniest autumn of the three I’ve spent trudging through the Bay Area hills. For three weeks running I’ve had perfect picture-taking weather and pleasant, breezy miles on the trails. I can’t imagine how much mud I’ll…
Happy Birthday to Two-Heel Drive
by tmangan • October 28, 2006 • 9 Comments
Well, those Our Hike gals splashed in the waters of the Pacific Ocean yesterday, meaning they’ve completed their coast to coast hike of the American Discovery Trail. It was an auspicious date, coming on the one-year anniversary of the birth…