I’ve hiked up the Monument Peak Trail at Ed Levin County Park dozens of times but only recently did I learn I had been walking right past remnants of a plane crash on the hill back in the 1950s. I…
Monthly Archives: November 2006
We’re No. 8
by tmangan • November 18, 2006 • 7 Comments
According to the blog of Base Camp Communications, a PR agency for outdoors companies. Base Camp’s rankings: The Piton – Well-connected industry insiders slinging velvet-tipped stones near and far. The broad sweep of their BS radar has marketing execs and…
Why it’s good to be named Tom
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Because yet another of us has an outdoors blog. Here’s one called Out There With Tom, by Tom Kotynski, a retired associate editor with the Great Falls Tribune. It’s all snowy in the Montana peaks these days so he’s talking…
AT thru-hiking off by more than 50 percent since ’99
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 1 Comment
This story from a Connecticut paper about the waning interest in backpacking drops this interesting tidbit: Even more dramatic is the drop in long-distance backpackers who set out each year to hike the entire 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to…
A few notable blog entries
by tmangan • November 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Dirt Diva, a class of 2006 Appalachian Trail hiker, posts her final entries, which include many fine images from the three seasons she encountered. Her comments on summer sound more like a warning: Summer seemed to last forever. The spring…
What you get when you Google “hiker trash”
by tmangan • November 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
Second on the list is the site of Paul “Mags” Magnanti, who just this month finished the Continental Divide Trail. His site has reams of hiking info, and tons of pictures from his travels, which are many. Bonus: he has…
Pluses and minuses of DSLRs
by tmangan • November 16, 2006 • 3 Comments
A DSLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera, which is the big, bulky brother of the compact point-and-shoots favored by the digital masses. DSLRs are capable of taking far better pictures than point-and-shoots because they have bigger and better sensors,…
UPDATE: Turkey Day Mini-Meetup at Mission Peak
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 11 Comments
CHANGE O’ PLANS: Dan Mitchell wants to do this at dawn to catch the sunrise from the top of the peak. This would require a 5:30 a.m. launch from the trailhead to get up to the top at 6:55. There…
Thoughts on camping under a tarp
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 3 Comments
Paul Davis of Hike-Lite blog has more aesthetic than weight-shaving reasons for tarping: On a perfect night a tarp provides the user with an incomparable sense of connection with the outdoors. Waking up to a sunrise under a tarp is…