The worrywarts tell us: never hike alone, but pretty much all of us do it probably most of the time, because it’s so much easier to just find your way to a trailhead and start walking than it is to…
Author Archive for tmangan
Another two days in the wilderness
by tmangan • July 17, 2006 • 6 Comments
It’s about 2 in the morning and I’m staring into the black nylon of my sleeping bag. I should be staring out the little hole that makes this a "mummy-style" bag, but my twisting and turning has entered the Olympic…
A couple quick outing reports
by tmangan • July 13, 2006 • 1 Comment
The Dude spent five days scrambling, fishing and camping in wilds of Montana. Many mountain goats visited his campsite: We skeedaddled and left the goats to paw up the ground where we had peed the night before. Yes, they were…
Packing out your poop
by tmangan • July 12, 2006 • 3 Comments
I keep promising not to write any more about bodily functions and keep breaking that promise but I have to figure, heck, everybody’s got to go, right? So anyway: The last overnight trip I went on passed a popular lake…
My PCT pratfall
by tmangan • July 11, 2006 • 2 Comments
There I was, poised on a footpath at Sonora Pass, 9,624 feet up on the Sierra crest, surrounded by stately, snow-clad peaks. Stepping backward to get more mountain into my digicam’s viewfinder, I stumbled on a small rock, landed on…
WildeBeat sighting
by tmangan • July 10, 2006 • 2 Comments
One of the Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers mentions bumping into Steve Sergeant and a friend at a resort along the trail: When I was checking out the bath-house I met WildeGeek and Patty who had just finshed a section of…
Northeast hiker’s blog
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened across Grog’s Blog this morning. It’s a pretty straightforward “here’s where I went, what I saw” hiking journal that offers ideas for checking trails of New England”s mountainous regions.
Our trails, ourselves
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 2 Comments
From a Seattle Times column on how budget cuts are drastically reducing the works of national parks and forests. A typical hiking trail costs, on average, about $1,000 per mile to maintain. Leave it neglected until it has eroded and…
Wheels, motive power, etc.
by tmangan • July 6, 2006 • 3 Comments
It was probably during the dot-com boom that the marketing department at Honda Automobiles thought “all those young white guys who snowboard all winter and surf, bike and kayak all summer need a car designed just for them.” So they…