Washington Trail Association blog writes about guidebook author and conservationist Harvey Manning, who died over the weekend. His style could be abrasive, but his tenacity and his insistence that hikers become active conservationists led to many lands in Washington being…
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Funnybone’s advice for PCT wannabes
by tmangan • November 14, 2006 • 1 Comment
His Pacific Crest Trail adventure complete, Chuckie V. dispenses bits of wisdom. Hike your own hike. Basic advice here. Anybody who tells you this more than once really means “Hike your own hike MY WAY.” Ignore them; they’re imbeciles. Gear…
Lots o’ Hong Kong hikes
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
Techotek! belongs to a guy in Hong Kong who has tramped all over the hills nearby. I’m posting this one for LittlePo because I know she can read the Chinese posts. Techotek’s hiking pix are here.
Blogging with Flickr
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 3 Comments
I post tons of pix over on my main homepage, and up until recently I would studiously crop and resize each picture for upload to my hosted domain. Even with the pictures optimized for minimum byte usage, eventually they’ll fill…
Essential blogging tool: Mozilla Firefox 2.0
by tmangan • November 13, 2006 • 2 Comments
I downloaded Version 2 of Mozilla Firefox the other day an I’m liking what I’m seeing. Two features make my blogging life happy: Inline spell-checker: It’ll flag any misspelled words you type into a Web form, which makes it especially…
Forest of Nisene Parks State Park: A good day to be in the woods
by tmangan • November 12, 2006 • 1 Comment
So I arrive at a municipal parking lot in Los Gatos where I’m supposed to meet my fellow hikers and I see some folks milling about. They look gray-haired and respectable, so I park the Hiker Hauler and wander over.…
Quick comment on Tuesday’s election
by tmangan • November 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
Americans cannot stand a unified government, and there’s at least a scrap of evidence that unified government doesn’t like America. To wit: 1960s: Democrats run everything. Result: Calamity in Vietnam. 2000s: Republicans run everything: Result: Calamity in Iraq. The saying…
What’s the worst jam you’ve ever been in?
by tmangan • November 10, 2006 • 7 Comments
This story about two backpackers whose overnighter into Olympic National Park turned into five days wandering lost in the woods made me wonder if others had similar stories, or worse. So fess up: click on “add your feedback” and tell…
Floods pound Glacier
by tmangan • November 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
Glacier National Park has been hit pretty hard by flooding on Tuesday, National Parks Traveler reports. From a Great Falls Tribune report on the flooding. Floodwaters from a freak November rainstorm swept away a large chunk of the famous Going-to-the-Sun…