Mike Cassidy talked to Bob this week and the honchos liked the story so much they put it on the front page. “It took a bit of doing,” he told me the other day. A bit. Like three days, a…
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Tom Clifton’s vacation pictures
by tmangan • August 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
He had some fun at a place in Oregon called Humbug Mountain. More of his pics at his Flickr page.
Mountain bikers injured at Forest of Nisene Marks
by tmangan • August 30, 2007 • 0 Comments
From the Santa Cruz Sentinel: An evening bike ride in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park turned perilous for a local couple Monday when the woman rode off an 80-foot cliff and her husband plummeted nearly as far trying…
Fire news blog
by tmangan • August 30, 2007 • 1 Comment
California Fire News could use a visual-appeal consultant, but the content’s there. Has tons of news headlines and weather reports (still in all-caps, the way the National Weather Service likes it).
Calipidder’s JMT report
by tmangan • August 29, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rebecca of Calipidder.com was finishing her John Muir Trail trek just as I was gearing up for the White Mountain Adventure. She now has several days of words and pictures posted, starting with this introduction, which includes links to each…
Hiking to fight cancer
by tmangan • August 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
Hike for Discovery is a fund-raising arm of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society that combines adventures with raising awareness and research dollars. A co-worker of mine did a Grand Canyon hike with the group a few years back. Here’s a…
Beth in Berkeley’s vacation pics
by tmangan • August 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
She and her tribe — Dad plus four young-uns — had some good fun camping at Lassen Volcanic National Park last week. Pictures here. Beth’s pics prove conclusively that if you’ve got kids, you’ve got a huge leg up on…
4WheelBob describes his epic hike
by tmangan • August 27, 2007 • 4 Comments
Bob Coomber shares the gritty details in a forum at Backpacker.com: I’d been told by the team that once onto the final switchbacks it got flatter and easier. I was completely demoralized, once there, to find the opposite. The rocks…
Favorite images from our White Mountain adventure
by tmangan • August 26, 2007 • 6 Comments
If you’re too busy to check out all 48 pictures posted at Flickr.com, I’m posting some of the faves. At some point I may post an in-depth narrative of all the fun and games, but I’d just as soon avoid…