Cutter posted an account of his hike up Mount Kephart, one of 40 peaks in the South Beyond 6000 (that is, peaks in the Southern U.S. taller than 6,000 feet). I slowed and moved aside to let the hiker pass.…
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This is cool: a bi-lingual blog
by tmangan • January 18, 2006 • 1 Comment
LittlePo.com is the work of a young woman from Taipei who’s into climbing, paddling and backpacking (now living in the northeastern U.S., I’m pretty sure). Her site has a link for switching between English and Chinese. Little Po’s real name…
A sunny breakfast blogroll
by tmangan • January 17, 2006 • 2 Comments
No rain in this morning’s forecast, but it’s supposed to storm tonight, so I’ll be on the trail this morning. Here are some freshly hand-rolled posts of note: Calipidder went camping at my favorite hills-from-hell locale, Henry Coe State Park.…
Tibetan wonders
by tmangan • January 17, 2006 • 0 Comments
Here’s a site I’ve been holding in reserve for a moment just like this: In the Footsteps of Joseph Rock, a blog by an Australian guy who’s retracing the routes of Rock, a botanist who worked there in the 1920s,…
An RV site worth checking out
by tmangan • January 16, 2006 • 10 Comments
Out ‘n’ About is fundamentally a blog out taking one’s recreational vehicle into the backcountry. Of course as a loyal GoBlog reader I’m shocked and appalled by the extravagant petroleum thirst required to get any kind of camper into the…
A prehike blogroll
by tmangan • January 16, 2006 • 2 Comments
I’ll be back out in the mud this morning but I’ll leave y’all with these links from those blogs we adore: Outdoor sports blog links to a half-dozen or so painfullly obvious hiking tips (the painful part becomes obvious only…
How about them waterfalls
by tmangan • January 15, 2006 • 2 Comments
It rained all day Saturday but I felt fine, because that meant the waterfalls would be roaring come Sunday, which is just how it turned out. Mike & Kathy’s hiking club does waterfall hikes right after New Years. Last year…
Uh, guys, lighten up
by tmangan • January 14, 2006 • 0 Comments
A couple comments over at GoBlog reveal an interesting pissing match between light-backpacking visionary Ray Jardine and the founder of GoLite, who went to some length to put out some fires Jardine was spreading because the two guys had a…
A thruhiker’s tale
by tmangan • January 14, 2006 • 4 Comments
I’ve been thinking about picking a hiker at random at TrailJournals and just following him/her along as the trip progresses, with posts here grabbing snippets of journal entries. This morning I found an intriguing prospect: A guy named Eric Yakel,…