One admirable thing our good GoBlog pal Climb_Ca did the other day was encourage everybody to stop by the Outdoors Pro blog and buck up its author, Mark, A U.S. Navy veteran and current ski/rafting guide who laments his traffic…
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GoBlog has been to the Holy Land!
by tmangan • June 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Who’da Thunk? Now obviously the area is dangerous. Dahab was just bombed by extremists. But, as I tell my friends, there’s never a good time to visit and I’ve been there a lot. But if you go, I can recommend…
The AT as Ultimate Summer Camp
by tmangan • June 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Jordan McCarron at mile 799.1 of the Appalachian Trail: We can play outside from the moment the sun comes up until it goes down and even then we can sleep out in tents. We can have campfires and make s’mores…
Oregon outdoors blog
by tmangan • June 7, 2006 • 0 Comments
Happened up on The Outsider, a blog hosted by the Register Guard in Eugene, Ore. The blogger is John Rezell, who seems to be having a bit of a challenge getting anybody to write back to him via his blog’s…
Hiking in the heat
by tmangan • June 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a thread full of useful tips at rec.backcountry. On Sunday I did my usual trick of throwing a tray of ice cubes into the hydration bladder. While I was fumbling through the fridge I remembered the fresh melon Melissa…
Recycle your old shoes
by tmangan • June 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
It works like this: This summer Chaco and Backcountry.com are making it easier to kick it in style. No, they aren’t negotiating for Chaco Friday’s at the office – you’re on your own for that. What Chaco has come up…
Body found near PCT hiker’s last camp
by tmangan • June 6, 2006 • 0 Comments
Searchers believe they’ve found the body of John Donovan, who disappeared on the Pacific Crest Trail last year and whose remaining gear at his campsite helped two lost hikers survive long enough to get help. The discovery was made about…
‘Hiker Heaven’ on the PCT
by tmangan • June 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
From the LiveJournal blog of Redtail, at mile 454 on the Pacific Crest Trail: Hiker Heaven … is an experience unto itself. THGTTPCT tries to give some flavor of it in the page and a half it devotes to the…
Sunol in the sunshine
by tmangan • June 4, 2006 • 1 Comment
I knew I wanted to hike somewhere on Sunday; I just didn’t want to hike too hard, or think too hard, or drive too far. When the lazy gene kicks in, I start thinking about places where the pictures take…