… I have Trail Journals. How heavy is my Monkey? Well, I just read the journal of a woman who did the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail, a mere 30something miles covered in a long weekend. It’s a hike all the Bay Area…
Monthly Archives: April 2007
PCT trail journal to watch
by tmangan • April 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
A guy who earned his trail name before he stepped foot on the trail — he goes by Out of Order in honor of his pack being lost in the flight across the country — is having quite an adventure.…
Leonard Adkins missed the AT blizzard
by tmangan • April 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Lots of folks faced nasty weather when a winter storm blew through a couple weeks back, as Leonard recounts in his latest update. He and his crew got a ride north and hiked to the Southern balds while the snow…
The real reason for eau de thru-hiker
by tmangan • April 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Scubaman is just outside of Warner Springs on the Pacific Crest Trail: My latest start yet. I was not under way until after 9 AM. It was cold outside and my clothes still damp. The sleeping bag felt so toasty…
On the way to Kilimanjaro
by tmangan • April 24, 2007 • 0 Comments
Adventure Blog just returned from Africa and has posted a quick review of Day One on the way up Kili: Throughout Day 1 you hike along a well developed and easy to follow trail surrounded by Kili’s cloud forest. The…
Best California hikes, with a twist
by tmangan • April 23, 2007 • 3 Comments
Rick McCharles sent me an e-mail this morning looking for best California hikes, mostly multi-day, but with a major limiting factor: they need to be outside the Sierra. First one that came to mind was the Lost Coast Trail. The…
Orestimba Wilderness opening
by tmangan • April 22, 2007 • 6 Comments
Tom Stienstra of that other newspaper says that a section of Henry Coe State Park called the Orestimba Wilderness will soon be accessible to mere mortals. For decades, getting to the wilderness required hiking, biking horesback-riding at least 20 miles…
Something wild at Calero
by tmangan • April 22, 2007 • 2 Comments
I saw at least a dozen turkeys, a half-dozen red-winged blackbirds, a quarter-dozen deer. I didn’t see the mountain lion, but I may have stepped in its poop. Well, I certainly stepped in something, and it shouldn’t have been doggie-doo…
Southeastern Hiking Festival trails
by tmangan • April 20, 2007 • 2 Comments
Here’s a list of all the hikes planned over the weekend of May 3-6. The free public festival is all day Saturday, the fifth, in Black Mountain, NC., just down the road from Asheville. I’m thinking we need us one…