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Recent finds
by tmangan • February 20, 2006 • 0 Comments
The Piton is a group blog of outdoors types. They linked this way last week so I’m returning the favor. The Map Room is the place to be to feed your cartography fetish.
Let’s get linkalicious
by tmangan • February 20, 2006 • 1 Comment
I found lots of swell goodies since the last update: GoBlog is blogging the Olympics (no comment on the board babe who was on her butt when she coulda been winning a gold medal; just as well — I thought…
A quest for snow
by tmangan • February 19, 2006 • 1 Comment
The snow we got over the weekend was heaviest above 3,000 feet. Since I’m all about the snow outings these days I decided the place to go to see more snow was Mount Diablo, which summits at over 3800 feet.…
Acronym of the day
by tmangan • February 17, 2006 • 2 Comments
G.A.D.: Gear Aquisition Disorder. Symptoms: owning multiple examples of a single type of gear. If you have more than three backpacks or four pairs of ourtdoor-related footwear, or tend to stop by REI because it’s, you know, on the way,…
Linkapalooza
by tmangan • February 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Lots of stuff came over the transom since yesterday’s update. Let’s check it out: Those “Our Hike” gals are up to Day 12. I’m noticing they aren’t exactly purists about camping their way across America at this point — quite…
Let’s have some more links
by tmangan • February 16, 2006 • 0 Comments
Little Po did some showshoeing. Justin needs some more suggestions for backpacking movies. Jonathan Claxton saw some snow in middle Tennesse. Treknologies needs some contributors for Jesse’s new adventure-travel wiki. GoBlog raves over some high-tech Asolo hiking shoes.
Headline of the day
by tmangan • February 16, 2006 • 2 Comments
INJURED BRIT SURVIVES SIX DAYS ON FROZEN MOUNTAIN DRINKING HIS OWN WEE And as the cold and dehydration set in, he took drastic action. Paul, who is recovering from his ordeal in hospital, said: “I wasn’t hungry, thirst was the…
A thruhiker’s hunger
by tmangan • February 16, 2006 • 2 Comments
From a San Francisco Chronicle article on a seven-time Pacific Crest Trail thruhiker. One weight-saving move came from rejecting a stove. He says he missed it only if the weather turned cold, and finding snowmelt water became a problem. For…