If any of you are like me and enjoy The Dude Abides, the lapsed lawyer now fulltime snowboarder keepin’ it real in Bozeman, Montana, you may share my chagrin at Outside magazine having named Bozeman one of its Top Ten…
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Doggin’ it
by tmangan • April 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a nice story on taking your dog backpacking, from the Salt Lake Tribune. I don’t really have any opinion on the topic of dogs on the trail; dogs can’t be any harder on the wilderness than people are. While…
Screw the mud
by tmangan • April 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
I’m hiking this morning anyway. Be back tomorrow, same Bat time, same Bat channel.
This just in: The Footwear Fallacy
by tmangan • April 12, 2006 • 1 Comment
From The Olympian of Olympia, Wash. The Footwear Fallacy posits that one must have a change of shoes for every possible activity. As with all fallacies, it rests on a certain reasonable logic. Climbing boots such as the type worn…
AT dispatch of the day
by tmangan • April 12, 2006 • 0 Comments
Overflow, at 363.8 miles in: I was only planning on walking 18 miles today, but Chestnut convinced me to do 21 so that I would have my first day over 20. He said that it gets easier after you’ve done…
Here’s the poop
by tmangan • April 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
This morning’s link crawling unearthed Hikers Against Doo-Doo. Among the group’s goals: HADD serves as a clearinghouse for time-tested and innovative methods for the collection, transport, or safe processing of human and domesticated animal waste. If there are any biotech…
Three fine links
by tmangan • April 11, 2006 • 0 Comments
OK, my self-discipline at not letting links pile up has lasted a solid two days. The latest must-reads: GoBlog points to a bathroom with with a view (a most excellent one overlooking Mount Elbrus). Gambolin Man writes a love letter…
Monday links
by tmangan • April 10, 2006 • 0 Comments
Time for another quick link roundup: WildeBeat brings Part II of Steve’s desert-camping guide. Dan Mitchell writes up his Death Valley camp-out. (Scroll up for another excellent pic). Calipidder updates a couple Backpackgeartest.org reviews she’s finished. Cyberhobo had a picturesque…
Learning to be light
by tmangan • April 9, 2006 • 0 Comments
No new pictures this week — I spent the whole weekend back in the classroom One of the ways adulthood totally rules over childhood is that you can pick only the kind of class you’re interested in. If I had…