Fishing the John Muir Trail is a nice piece at thru-hiker.com. Includes actual streams that have yielded fish in the past. Good to know when a bear has stolen all your food and it’s three days’ walk to the next…
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Where to find a backpacking scale
by tmangan • March 22, 2006 • 3 Comments
So I signed up for a light-weight backpacking class to be taught by Steve Sergeant of WildeBeat fame. Turns out one of the homework requirements is to weigh all my gear, so I’ve been busy the past few days tracking…
More canyon escapades
by tmangan • March 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
UT Outdoors has another of those slithering-through-cracks-in-the-earth videos that give me the willies. And speaking of slot-canyoneering, Wicked Outdoorsy notes that Aron Ralston, who had to cut his hand off to escape one, will endorse a line of personal-locator beacons.…
Why you should take your mom backpacking
by tmangan • March 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
Robin Grapa’s latest “Our Hike” entry (700-plus miles and counting) mentioned a meet-up with a reporter and photographer from the Gazette of Chillicothe, Ohio, so I looked up the paper and found the story about their travels. You may recall…
A new backpacking blog
by tmangan • March 21, 2006 • 1 Comment
Remember Your Paths started showing up in my referrer logs the other day and within hours a comment by Becklund, its author, showed up here. We can say that this blog has officially arrived because it inspired an extended rant…
Heroes don’t work for free these days
by tmangan • March 20, 2006 • 3 Comments
From the Hartford Courant: Barber, 38, reportedly was hiking through the park when she felt the urge to do a little rock climbing. Halfway up the rocks, Barber got in a jam. As one who doesn’t like heights, I can…
Monday links redux
by tmangan • March 20, 2006 • 3 Comments
The usual suspects have been busy over the weekend: Cyberhobo went snowshoeing and declined to correct fellow hikers’ poor trail etiquette and brainless apparel choices. (He won’t last 10 minutes in Berkeley if he keeps that up!) Cutter reveals his…
Return to the Pinnacles
by tmangan • March 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
Seems like it’s rained every day for the last three weeks. I was so fed up with hiking in the mud that I skipped my morning hikes all week, so I was ready for some trail time this weekend. Mike…
Another “what filter should I buy?” thread
by tmangan • March 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
For those who haven’t read one of these in a while, take a look. It’s the same as every other thread you’ve seen on the topic, but what the heck, we still watch reruns on TV, right?