The Citizen-Times of Asheville, N.C., profiles a book about backcountry repairs. The many wonders and uses of duct tape on the trail are extolled in a new pocket-size guidebook, “Don’t Forget the Duct Tape: Tips and Tricks for Repairing Outdoor…
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Mountain lion victim coming home
by tmangan • February 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
Jim Hamm has a stupendous gash in his scalp, courtesy of the big cat that pounced on him a few weeks back. His wife had to repeatedly hit the cat with a stick before it would let go. Today, after…
At the chiropractor
by tmangan • February 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
PTC class o’ 2007 hopeful Stephanie is trying to get a small detail in order — the fact that her spine is a bit of train wreck — and reports back from her first chiropractic experience: First, he sat me…
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 14, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Ancient Bristlecone Pine,” from the photo stream of Clinton Steeds. Locale is the White Mountains of California.
Taking your teen backpacking
by tmangan • February 13, 2007 • 0 Comments
Jeffrey from the American Hiking Society offers tips to avoid making your teen-aged daughter distant and resentful.
Flickr hiking pic o’ the day
by tmangan • February 13, 2007 • 0 Comments
“Pencil-necked Geek with Bart Simpson Haircut,” from the photo stream of rovingmagpie. Caption: ” What our imaginations get up to when we’re on the trail – the body is tired but the brain is still drinking it all in :^)”…
Storing your inflatable pad
by tmangan • February 13, 2007 • 2 Comments
Leave it inflated, with the valve open, Gear Guy says. What we do at my house: stash ’em behind a door that stays open all the time and use a door stopper to keep them flush against the wall. Whatever…
Photographer, naturalist dies on Hawaii hike
by tmangan • February 13, 2007 • 0 Comments
David Boynton fell 300 feet from a trail on a steep cliff on the north face of the Miloli’i Valley wall on Kaua’i. Boynton, 61, was born on O’ahu and had been a teacher for 36 years. He was a…
This just in: Topo maps of Mars
by tmangan • February 12, 2007 • 2 Comments
Can’t wait to try out my Gore-Tex on the Red Planet: Scientists using data from the HRSC experiment onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft have produced the first ‘hiker’s maps’ of Mars. Giving detailed height contours and names of geological features…