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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Links for Northwest hikers
by tmangan • November 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
All you Northwesties who haven’t been there already oughta check out NWHikers.net, which I discovered this morning from a link at the Washington Trails Association blog. Tons o’ discussions, links & such. The forum has a section for links, blogs…
This time it’s my birthday
by tmangan • November 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
I wrote some stuff about it at my other blog.
Great news for wildlife lovers
by tmangan • November 8, 2006 • 1 Comment
Richard Pombo will be leaving the United States House of Representatives. The Washington Post ranked Pombo’s campaign among the 10 worst-run incumbent campaigns in the country, and the Tracy rancher faced a last-minute onslaught of campaigning by well-financed environmental groups…
Chuckie V reaches Canada
by tmangan • November 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Chuckie, trail name Funnybone, on reaching the final milepost on the Pacific Crest Trial: I wound my way down the last set of switchbacks when I came to a clearing. There it stood, Monument 78, a miniature Washington Monument looking…
Another bi-lingual hiking blog
by tmangan • November 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Trekking Lab is an Italian hiking blog that has thoughtfully linked here, and even more thoughtfully has started offering English translations. Here’s an interesting tip from a post about orienteering: Parabolic Antenna: if you find a mountain hut with a…
Voting in today’s election
by tmangan • November 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Last night I watched an excellent PBS documentary about the Gold Rush, in which tens of thousands of greedy dreamers from around the world converged on Northern California in search of easy money, which wasn’t to be found in the…
Lots o’ links
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 2 Comments
Rick of Best Hikes has been racking up a ton of great posts of late. To wit: The World’s Most Dangerous Tourist Route Fast vs. slow hiking in a group. Paria, the best canyon hike in the world. Hiking the…
One for the Trail Journals greatest hits file
by tmangan • November 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
From Funnybone’s PCT journal: It was an hideous day, the kind that reminds you that you’d rather be indoors reading or sitting in front of the telly or perhaps even doing the dishes or standing in line at the Department…