.. having hookup woes at Two-Heel Drive World Headquarters, which gives me a perfect excuse to award myself a day off from blogging … be back Monday.
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Rolling Thunder’s last update
by tmangan • October 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
The New Zealander is back on his job covering the news back home, but he has one last post summarizing what it’s all about to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from stem to stern in one season. Read the whole…
Another gear link
by tmangan • October 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
Erika Dillman of Fitness Travel Gear passed a link to her site along, and has added Two-Heel Drive to her links list. The site has reams of reviews of footwear, clothing and such. From a review of some snazzy Salomon…
Latest hiking fiend update
by tmangan • October 25, 2006 • 2 Comments
John Fedak sent this link along from a guy who hiked 45 miles with 8,100-plus elevation gain in one day. An excerpt: After Madulce I headed for Samon. Along the way I filtered water at Chokecherry spring. It was 4:24pm…
Famed climber dies in fall at Yosemite
by tmangan • October 25, 2006 • 0 Comments
Todd Skinner fell 500 feet from the Leaning Tower. Todd Skinner was rappelling Monday after he and a partner worked on pioneering a new route near Bridalveil Fall, said Adrienne Freeman, a park spokeswoman. It was not immediately clear why…
Thru-hikers back in the press
by tmangan • October 23, 2006 • 0 Comments
It must be late October because small-circulation newspapers are starting to report on thru-hikers returning from six months on the trail. In Racine, Wisconsin, a guy returning to his parents’ home walked the last six miles from the train station.…
Winehiker revisited
by tmangan • October 22, 2006 • 1 Comment
This week we revisit Russ Beebe of CaliforniaWineHikes.com, whom I accompanied last month for a swell hike at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, followed by a wine tasting at a vineyard near the park. Russ was a co-conspirator in my…
Let’s hear it for Japanese hikers
by tmangan • October 20, 2006 • 4 Comments
From a Japan Times story about hiking in the countryside northwest of Tokyo: The fellow passengers on the weekend “holiday special express” from Shinjuku to Okutama or Musashi-Itsukaichi — an hour northwest of Tokyo — are a strange melange: There…
For all you Whitney wannabes
by tmangan • October 20, 2006 • 1 Comment
If you haven’t hiked to the highest point in the Lower 48, WildeBeat tells you how to get there. When I first started hiking I figured I had to do Mount Whitney. After all, there is a trail right to…