Snow-camping was cold. Also, cool. Pix & words here.
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24 hours at Carson Pass
by tmangan • February 5, 2006 • 0 Comments
It’s four hours past sunset and I’m attempting to sleep on snow seven feet deep. I’m about 50 yards from the Pacific Crest Trail, an hour’s slog (on snowshoes) south of Carson Pass in the High Sierra south of Lake…
Bagging rights: Synthetic vs. down
by tmangan • February 3, 2006 • 3 Comments
You get a sense of Mac-vs-PC, Pepsi-vs-Coke, Israelis-vs-Palestinians in the great debate about whether the best sleeping bag should have down or synthetic fill. This thread at Whiteblaze.net covers the controversy in pretty good detail. If you listened to the…
Why hiking is better than driving
by tmangan • February 3, 2006 • 0 Comments
From Poky, a guy planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail this summer: I’m struck by the fact that when I was on the trail I was open to all interactions from people, but in traffic I am unhappy with…
Beyond cool … downright chilly in fact
by tmangan • February 3, 2006 • 3 Comments
Josh Wilkins’ Simplehiker site is back up and running on a new publishing platform. Just in time for your next blizzard, he has a link to igloo-building instructions. Josh has a hankering to go snow-camping, which is what I’ll be…
A few more links
by tmangan • February 2, 2006 • 1 Comment
GoBlog can’t get enough of piling on REI (turns out most of their catalogs aren’t on recycled paper. The Nerve of those Bastards!) Justin has caved to his gear jones. Dan Mitchell, who has lived in San Jose since Nixon…
Remember the “Our Hike” gals?
by tmangan • February 2, 2006 • 0 Comments
They’re leaving tomorrow for the East Coast. Then today we had even more practice! What an experience. I started out the morning with a couple of early radio-phone interviews. Then mom and I headed to the Wiouwash trailhead at the…
Casting URLs before swine
by tmangan • February 1, 2006 • 4 Comments
In the interest of Google sending a few pig farmers our way (who will no doubt say, “sure, I walk through mud and feces all the time but it’s not my idea of recreation” ), I offer today’s links, some…
Thanks for thinking of me, but…
by tmangan • January 31, 2006 • 3 Comments
GoBlog sends another kindly link our way, this time in a post about wristwatch/gps/altimeter/computer that does everything but the breakfast dishes. Of course my gear lust is stoked till I catch the price: $498.59. Such watches operate under a complex…